University of South Florida's Solar Powered Robot Tweets Ocean Conditions

Posted on April 2, 2012

University of South Florida has solar-powered robots, Solar-powered Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (SAUVs), that can analyze ocean conditions and tweet them. Each robot has real-time sensors and is capable of transmitting its own tweets. The tweets from one of the robots can be found @Tavros02. The vehicles are depth rated to 600 meters.

David Fries, Director of USF Marine Ecosystems Technology Group, says, "This is a really exciting area of machine intelligence. We were interested in getting machines taking in data and �- like humans have processed that data in the past - Tweeting it back to us intelligently. We wanted to figure out how we could have them objectively communicate data without human input and using Twitter linked to artificial intelligent programs allows us to do that and distribute to a large user group."

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