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Unmanned and underneath: Stay in the know about underwater drones

Editor's note: This article is adapted from a post from November 2015 and includes recent developments and updated spending figures. In October 2016, the U.K. Royal Navy hosted Unmanned Warr...

02 November 2016, by Dan Gettinger

The Year of CoCoRo Video #51/52: Big Vision

Our penultimate video features the initial "Big Vision" trailer we produced at the beginning of this project. The video showcases the basic components of the robotic system we targeted (surface st...

22 December 2015, by Thomas Schmickl

New $7M XPRIZE competition seeks to usher in a new era of ocean exploration

At a keynote address this week during the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting in San Francisco, Peter Diamandis, chairman and CEO of XPRIZE, announced the launch of the $7M Shell Ocean Discover...

17 December 2015, by XPRIZE

Scaling up underwater swarmbot research from tabletop ‘aquarium’ to the Venice Lagoon (CoCoRo Video #50/52)

Our underwater swarm research started in a few cubic centimeters of water with some naked electronics on a table. Over the next three and a half years, our swarm increased by a factor of 40, and ...

15 December 2015, by Thomas Schmickl

The Year of CoCoRo Video #49/52: Base stations

During the past year we have shown many swarm algorithms in various experiments. The spotlight was always on the Lily and the Jeff robots. However, there is now another star in the team and this tr...

08 December 2015, by Thomas Schmickl

The Year of CoCoRo Video #48/52: Workshops

Most of the videos from The Year of CoCoRo were shot during workshops we held throughout the project. These workshops, which were usually focussed on one or several specific demonstrators, were wha...

01 December 2015, by Thomas Schmickl

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Marine Robotics Systems, with Stefan Williams

Transcript below. In this episode, Ron Vanderkley speaks with Stefan Williams of the University of Sydney’s Australian Centre for Field Robotics, Marine Systems Group. They discuss the future of...

30 November 2015, by Ron Vanderkley

The Year of CoCoRo Video #47/52: Underwater robots swarm at CEBIT consumer electronics show

In March 2014, we exhibited CoCoRo in Hannover, Germany at the CEBIT -- Europe's largest consumer electronics fair. At first we thought we might be out of place and that our exhibit would be overshad...

24 November 2015, by Thomas Schmickl

The Year of CoCoRo Video #46/52: JeffShoaling

The EU-funded Collective Cognitive Robotics (CoCoRo) project has built a swarm of 41 autonomous underwater vehicles (AVs) that show collective cognition. Throughout 2015 – The Year of CoCoRo – w...

17 November 2015, by Thomas Schmickl

What you need to know about underwater drones

Late last month, Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus appointed Brig. Gen. Frank Kelley to become the first deputy assistant secretary of the Navy for unmanned systems, a position that was created in April...

16 November 2015, by Dan Gettinger

The Year of CoCoRo Video #36/52: Relay swarm

08 September 2015, by Thomas Schmickl

The Year of CoCoRo Video #35/52: Relay chain communication

01 September 2015, by Thomas Schmickl

The Year of the CoCoRo Video #20/52: Autonomous docking with Jeff robots

The EU-funded Collective Cognitive Robotics (CoCoRo) project has built a swarm of 41 autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) that show collective cognition. Throughout 2015 – The Year of CoCoRo �...

22 May 2015, by Thomas Schmickl

The Year of the CoCoRo Video #19/52: Electric confinement in the harbour

20 May 2015, by Thomas Schmickl

The Year of the CoCoRo Video #18/52: Confining Jeff robots with an electric field

04 May 2015, by Thomas Schmickl

The Year of CoCoRo Video #17/52: Lily confinement by bluelight

30 April 2015, by Thomas Schmickl

CoCoRo: New video series tracks dev’t of collective behaviour in autonomous underwater swarm

The EU-funded Collective Cognitive Robotics (CoCoRo) project comprises the largest autonomous underwater swarm in the world. Following three-and-a-half years of intensive research, CoCoRo's interdi...

28 April 2015, by Thomas Schmickl