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commands. This concept challenges both technology and business conven- tions. Aquanaut’s transforming capabil- ities are impressive mechanical devel-

ENGINEERED TO WITHSTAND opments. But the sensing and software engineering developments are equally YOUR ENVIRONMENT important. Training a robotic system to perceive, understand, and engage a

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CAMERAS—LIGHTS—PAN & TILTS—CONTROLLERS—ENGINEERING its reliability to subjective human op- www.sidus-solutions.com erators. Lawyers and accountants will [email protected] not understand the code and will only +1 (619) 275-5533 be convinced by successive demonstra- tions and incremental progress toward a fully autonomous IMR operating envi- ronment. To combine the words of off- shore operators and managers, it will be a “long slog” before the “shiny robots” can do it all.

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