2018-05-24
Video by MIT’s Laura Castanon, Timothy Dimacali, Lochie Ferrier, and Tristan Honscheid
Can you teach a marine robot to be curious about its environment? MIT-WHOI Joint Program graduate students Genevieve Flaspohler and Kevin Doherty along with WHOI assistant scientist Yogesh Girdhar are programming autonomous robots to identify interesting features and investigate them. They’re also coding them to work collectively in a fleet to explore an area, talking to each other to determine ocean features that are unusual, interesting and worth following.