Jun 16, 2022
MEDUSA‘ dual robot’ drone flies and dives to collect aquatic data
Posted by Shubham Ghosh Roy in categories: climatology, drones, health, robotics/AI, sustainability
Researchers at Imperial College London have developed a new dual drone that can both fly through air and land on water to collect samples and monitor water quality. The researchers developed a drone to make monitoring drones faster and more versatile in aquatic environments.
The ‘dual robot’ drone, tested at Empa and the aquatic research institute Eawag in Switzerland, has successfully measured water in lakes for signs of microorganisms and algal blooms, which can pose hazards to human health, and could in the future be used to monitor climate clues like temperature changes in Arctic seas.
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