Making Science in the Ocean Cheap With the Robotboat

Doing science in the far-out ocean is hard. You need a boat, a crew, equipment and a lot of money. What if you could do it with robots?

That's exactly the idea of a new Kickstarter project called Robotboat. Behind the project are four engineers who aim to build and test the Roboboat Mark VI, the sixth version of a low-cost, self-propelled autonomous catamaran that's going to be equipped with all kinds of gizmos to study the ocean.

With it, the researchers hope to be able to study oil leaks, marine life, icebergs and even the Pacific Garbage Patch. Basically, they want to do scientific research for cheap with unmanned, completely autonomous sailin…
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