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I n the frigid waters off Antarctica, a team of our colleagues deploy a waterborne robot and conduct final wireless checks on the sys-tem’s internal engines and onboard sensors, before sending the device on its way to explore the ocean conditions in an undersea canyon over a month-long expedition. T...
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| Summary: | I n the frigid waters off Antarctica, a team of our colleagues deploy a waterborne robot and conduct final wireless checks on the sys-tem’s internal engines and onboard sensors, before sending the device on its way to explore the ocean conditions in an undersea canyon over a month-long expedition. The autonomous ro-bot’s mission will be monitored and adjusted on the fly by scientists and their students remotely located in the United States; the data it returns will become part of our overall picture of conditions in the Southern Ocean. Ocean robots—more formally known as autonomous underwater vehicles, or AUVs—are improving our understand- |
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