MIT’s fleet of autonomous boats can now shapeshift

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By mmillikinAug 30, 2019, 3:30 am236 pts
MIT’s fleet of autonomous boats (earlier post) has been updated with new capabilities to “shapeshift,” by autonomously disconnecting and reassembling into a variety of configurations, to form floating structures in Amsterdam’s many canals. The autonomous boats—rectangular hulls equipped with sensors,…

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