Students to dive into underwater robot conflict

Third-level students are to engage in underwater robot wars as part of the first innovation week organised by the Irish Maritime and Energy Research Cluster.

Students from Cork Institute of Technology, University College Cork, and the Naval Service will be given Wavin pipes, basic motors, and electronic equipment which they will have to turn into an underwater robot within a day.

Their finished products will then be put in a tank at UCC’s Hydraulic & Maritime Research Centre, where the one which successfully negotiates a series of underwater obstacles in the quickest time will be declared the winner.