Taking the Lab into the Ocean: A Coordinated Fleet of Robots Successfully Tracks and Monitors Microbial Communities

ENN
Jan 13, 2021, 3:28 pm1k ptsInteresting
Researchers from MBARI, the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa (UH Mānoa), and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, after years of development and testing, have successfully demonstrated that a fleet of autonomous robots can track and study a moving microbial community in an open-ocean eddy.

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