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way back to Scotland. We didn’t quite manage that with both today in terms of keeping these AUVs powered, vehicles, one did have to be recovered early. But the other ve- out and persistent?

hicle made it all the way from Iceland to Scotland, which was It’s a really interesting question. There are two approaches quite a long way for an AUV. out there for this persistent AUV operation. You’ve got more

What was really interesting was the kind of science that we hover-style vehicles that are docking onto the seabed and re- were doing, the sensors that were on board. It was packed full charging to keep their energy supplies up. We’ve taken a much of these lab-on-chip chemical sensors, and we spent a huge simpler approach: where we just pack the things full of pri- amount of time working with the science users just to