The next time a levee overflows or an oil pipeline breaks, hundreds of pint-sized robots could be ready to deploy instantly, fan out into the water, and track the contamination in real time through their own communications network.That’s one of the goals behind UC-Berkeley’s Floating Sensor Network Project, which sent its first full fleet of 100 miniature robotic watercraft into the Sacramento River last week.
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