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22-Feb 2012
Cesar Harada Articles
Protei - Robotic Sailboat for Oil Spills
Imagine a robotic, wind-powered whale that “eats” oil spills. After visiting the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in June of 2010, a young engineer named Cesar Harada, decided to leave MIT in Boston to develop just such a vessel. Protei is unmanned, autonomous, relatively inexpensive and open source hardware (anybody can use, modify and distribute its designs), making it a potentially powerful weapon in the battle to clean up the Gulf of Mexico.
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