Protei 2
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Protei 2 Basic Data Category: Robotics URL (first publication): https://www.scoutbots.com/protei/ Keywords: robot License: CERN Open Hardware License Project status: Active
Technical documentation Maturity of the project: production / DIY
Assembly instructions are published: Yes Bill of materials is published: Yes
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Project management
Open-o-meter: 6 Product category: Toys & Games
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Description
The Ocean covers more than 71% of our planet surface and store more than (https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-much-heat-does-the-ocean-trap-robots-find-out/ 90 percent of the excess heat created by human activities). It is also where (https://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/article/0_0_0/origsoflife_03 all life comes from). Yet we are destroying it. Global warming. Acidification. Overfishing. Plastic pollution. Chemical runoffs. Oil spills. Radioactive leakage... We need to develop solutions to invert the negative effect we have on the ocean. Scoutbots develops:# (https://www.scoutbots.com/new-index Protei): the open hardware shape-shifting sailing robot. The goal is to deploy a fleet of (https://www.scoutbots.com/protei soft, renewable-energy-powered "ocean satellites") to collect ocean data.# Boats: platforms to carry sensors and collect ocean data.# (https://www.scoutbots.com/sensors Sensors): once our marine platform is mature, what will we measure? See (https://www.scoutbots.com/sensors our sensors prototypes.)
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