Micro Underwater Robot (RU)

Research project developing the HippoCampus micro autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV), used for research in confined underwater environments. Hosted on GitHub; associated with academic robotics research in underwater autonomy.

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Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0047
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