After 20 years of competing in land-based robotics competitions, students at the Limestone Career Technical Center are taking their skills beneath the waves.
For the first time, the school will compete in an underwater robotics competition to take place next month at the Dauphin Island Sea Lab.
The competition is representative of the growing presence of robotics in industrial applications and for scientific research.
It will test the students’ abilities to perform underwater tasks that engineers currently accomplish with remotely operated vehicles or ROVs, as well as tasks they hope swimming robots will perform in the future.