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The initiative will be run through Nat Geo's Open Explorer platform, which enables users to document, share and promote their field work with the general public. For example, The Aquarius Project is an Open Explorer collaboration between Chicago's Field Museum and the Adler Planetarium helping teens find pieces of a meteorite that crashed into Lake Michigan while Unsettled Waters takes viewers in search of sharks near California's Farallon Islands and Dissemination Lab looks for rare beetles in Madagascar.
"The key initiative is designed to get these out to conservation groups, early career researchers, folks who otherwise couldn't afford it," Lang told Engadget. As such, all applicants "really need to do is go on to open explorer and Start An Expedition." Each submission will be reviewed and appraised by a team of scientists who will award an OpenROV Trident to the 1,000 most worthy expedition ideas at a rate of around 50 units a month.
"We're not going to really start shipping the thousand until next year after [OpenROV] gets through the back order and all the Kickstarter which we'll be done with in the next few weeks," Lang clarified. What's more, the SEE initiative will only be providing the ROV itself and a 25-foot tether. If you're hoping for additional accessories like the hard case or Android-powered controller, you're going to have to spring for those yourself (as well as shipping costs if you live outside the continental US).
https://www.engadget.com/2018/10/19...giving-away-1000-robot-submarines/?yptr=yahoo
Here is the application form!
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeejPVnqhv7Unft5cGLNUQe9RHamnopjmwIxn8AW4lhiK-Uow/viewform
The initiative will be run through Nat Geo's Open Explorer platform, which enables users to document, share and promote their field work with the general public. For example, The Aquarius Project is an Open Explorer collaboration between Chicago's Field Museum and the Adler Planetarium helping teens find pieces of a meteorite that crashed into Lake Michigan while Unsettled Waters takes viewers in search of sharks near California's Farallon Islands and Dissemination Lab looks for rare beetles in Madagascar.
"The key initiative is designed to get these out to conservation groups, early career researchers, folks who otherwise couldn't afford it," Lang told Engadget. As such, all applicants "really need to do is go on to open explorer and Start An Expedition." Each submission will be reviewed and appraised by a team of scientists who will award an OpenROV Trident to the 1,000 most worthy expedition ideas at a rate of around 50 units a month.
"We're not going to really start shipping the thousand until next year after [OpenROV] gets through the back order and all the Kickstarter which we'll be done with in the next few weeks," Lang clarified. What's more, the SEE initiative will only be providing the ROV itself and a 25-foot tether. If you're hoping for additional accessories like the hard case or Android-powered controller, you're going to have to spring for those yourself (as well as shipping costs if you live outside the continental US).
https://www.engadget.com/2018/10/19...giving-away-1000-robot-submarines/?yptr=yahoo
Here is the application form!
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeejPVnqhv7Unft5cGLNUQe9RHamnopjmwIxn8AW4lhiK-Uow/viewform
