ROBOTICS, UNDERWATER ROBOTICS
Underwater robotics is full of opportunities Estonia has one of Europe’s top 15 research teams Professor Maarja Kruusmaa and her team’s research is one of the most expensive in the field. Among artificial intelligence, there is no niche that is more volatile than underwater robotics.
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rones that fly in the air have become commonplace and even children can have fun with them, but the underwater world is much more complicated, so it’s no surprise that we can’t just buy a robot or a drone to explore the seabed with from a shop yet. Professor Kruusmaa and her research team are working hard to make this a real possibility. The approximate quantity of water on Earth is 1.34 billion cubic kilometres. 97% of this is seawater locat-
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Estonian Centre of Excellence in ICT Research
