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Yogesh Girdhar diving with his prototype underwater robot, Aqua, in Barbados.

Yogesh Girdhar diving with his prototype underwater robot, Aqua, in Barbados.
Yogesh Girdhar diving with his prototype underwater robot, Aqua, in Barbados.
Yogesh Girdhar diving with his prototype underwater robot, Aqua, in Barbados.
Yogesh Girdhar diving with his prototype underwater robot, Aqua, in Barbados.
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Yogesh Girdhar diving with his prototype underwater robot, Aqua, in Barbados.
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01/11/2013
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WHOI assistant scientist Yogesh Girdhar is developing underwater robots that can explore in a more humanlike way. This includes having the ability to distinguish "interesting" visual stimuli and home in on them, rather than proceeding on preprogrammed routes in a more, well, robotic fashion. Girdhar helped develop this experimental vehicle, called Aqua. In experiments off Barbados, it detected something different and interesting -- Girdhar himself. It followed him until he stopped, and then it hovered over him.
Caption from Oceanus magazine, Vol. 51, No. 2, pg. 90:
Who is contemplating whom? WHOI postdoctoral scholar Yogesh Girdhar is developing underwater robots that can explore in a more humanlike way. They would have the ability to distinguish interesting visual stimuli and home in on them, rather than proceeding on preprogrammed routes in a more, well, robotic fashion. He helped develop this experimental vehicle, called Aqua. In experiments off Barbados, it detected something different and interestingGirdhar himself. It followed him until he stopped, and then it hovered over him.
Photo by Ioannis Rekleitis, McGill University
© Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
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