The autonomous seaplane is called Flying Fish and was built by the University of Michigan on a DARPA grant. It’s designed to provide long duration surveillance of an area of ocean, and it currently being outfitted with solar panels, which should enable it to keep on station indefinitely.
It’s always kinda fun to see how animals interact with robots; since robots aren’t something that are generally designed to work with animals (with some exceptions) or vice versa. Now, everybody knows that dolphins are a very intelligent form of life, so it’s especially interesting to see them checking out this little robotic seaplane.
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