A small fleet of drone submarines sits in drydock at a Virginia Tech engineering building.
They’re autonomous underwater vehicles, AUVs for short, and they come in multiple sizes. Among them are three bright yellow ones called 690 AUV. They’re as tall as an NBA forward but as big around as a stove pipe.
Their target: microplastics.
Virginia Tech scientists from the Center for Marine Autonomy and Robotics launched a 690 last summer at Claytor Lake, testing the AUV for eventual deployment in Chesapeake Bay waters.
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