Month: March 2023

Episode 22: Adding autonomy with the National Robotarium

Offshore inspections require arduous and hazardous sea travel. The coming boom in offshore wind will see tens of thousands of assets needing inspection in the North Sea alone. Building fleets of crewed vessels to perform these inspections would have significant carbon impacts. In an earlier Planet Beyond Short, Mark Bruce explained how Fugro is deploying…

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Short: Denise Swanborn – Exploring oceans in a submersible

Denise Swanborn is an expedition manager with Nekton.  She recently completed her PhD in marine science, at Oxford. In this episode, recorded on International Women’s Day, she talks to Jon Baston-Pitt about her own path to marine exploration, and describes the excitement and wonder of a career spent exploring the depths. Denise’s work has taken…

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