Forget the gondola – researchers have found a fresh way to see Venice. An international team of scientists is planning to explore the waterways beneath the historic city with swarms of autonomous underwater robots. Dubbed “subCULTron,” the $4.55 million project would utilize 120–plus robots of three different types – the world’s largest autonomous underwater robot swarm to date – to explore the Venice Lagoon and its surrounding body of water. “For robotics, Venice is a noteworthy field of application: the waters are murky, or turbulent,there are a lot of obstacles underwater like cables, pipes and other sunken things, or also the channels themselves form a complex maze-like habitat,” project coordinator and University of Graz Professor Thomas Schmikl told FoxNews.com. “All
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