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Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Autonomous underwater robot reduces ship fuel consumption

The best way to stop barnacles from colonizing is don't let them settle and colonize on the hull in the first place- advises McElvany. With that in mind, ONR recently conducted tests with a developmental ship hull grooming robot, called the Robotic Hull Bio-inspired Underwater Grooming tool or Hull BUG. The tests showed that this little groomer — similar in concept to a autonomous robotic home vacuum cleaner or lawn mower — has a lot of promise.

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