Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Competition

krugg234 writes "Today [ed. note: well, a few days ago] marks the start of the Fifth Annual International Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Competition. This year's competition involves completely autonomous robots locating and reading bar codes at various depths underwater at a naval base in San Diego. There are some good links on the site to individual competitors' websites to see how different schools tackled the same problem."

Comments

Disgusting.

[Burgundy Advocate]

I'm shocked and taken aback that tuition money from schools is going to fund this kind of stuff.

This is an obvious military technology being developed. As if we don't have enough weapons to destroy opposing cultures with.

What of the people who go to these schools that are pacifists? Their tuition is funding the throbbing war-machine of America, and I for one am horrified. The military should fund their own damn research, not use college students to design their swords for them.

Perhaps we should create a bill through the ACLU so you can opt-out of having your money (on taxes and on tuitions) go to military projects like this? Otherwise, Conscious Objectors aren't being represented.