There can only be one underwater robot champion.
On Saturday, 60 teams of students from 18 states and 13 countries came together for the 13th annual Marine Advance Technology Education Remotely Operated Vehicle International Competition at Michigan’s Thunder
There can only be one underwater robot champion.
On Saturday, 60 teams of students from 18 states and 13 countries came together for the 13th annual Marine Advance Technology Education Remotely Operated Vehicle International Competition at Michigan’s Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary. Basically, all of that fancy talk translates to one simple thing: a competition of underwater robots.
For the event, high school and university students worked with robots in a large tank, making them perform various tasks — including identifying a simulated shipwreck, cataloguing invasive species, gathering microbial samples and more. A team of judges evaluated the students on their robots’ design, engineering, construction and communication.
The first place prize in the advanced category went to a team from Jesuit High School in Carmichael, California, and second and third place went to Bauman Moscow State University and Far Eastern Federal University of Vladivostok, Russia.
In the intermediate category, first place went to a team from Clarenville High School in Newfoundland, followed by Cornerstone Academy of Gainesville, Florida in seco