RU-27, dubbed Scarlet Knight after the Rutgers Scarlet Knights athletic teams, is an experimental American autonomous underwater vehicle – a modified Slocum Autonomous Underwater Gliding Vehicle – operated by Rutgers University oceanographers. In December 2009, Scarlet Knight was the first robot to cross the Atlantic Ocean underwater, which took it 221 days.
References
edit- Brown, David (December 15, 2009). "Submersible glider spent months collecting data on Atlantic waters". Washington Post. Retrieved 20 December 2009.
External links
edit- Project website
- Trailer for upcoming documentary about RU-27
- Scarlet Knight Now Displayed at Smithsonian After Historic Trans-Atlantic Crossing
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