Aquatic Soft Robots

Aquatic Soft Robots

  Photo credits: Simona Aracri     In order to forecast increasingly common extreme weather events climate scientists need a deeper understanding of the role played by the abyssal ocean in their weather prediction models.  Oceanographic cruises are...
Managing Water Resources

Managing Water Resources

When you work in science, you are supposed to find your own niche, find your own contact angle, and find your own unusual question. Then you go to conferences and write papers to share it. ORCA Hub, the project that we are working on, focuses on offshore industry...

Limpet travelling

In the last week we covered more than a 1000 km distance by train and 3 cities to meet with scientists working on the ORCA project.  We left Edinburgh early in the morning on Monday. With hot coffees in our hands, we jumped on a train to London at Waverly station....
All Hands

All Hands

On 11th April academics working on the Orca Hub project met to discuss the state of the project, to show demonstration, prototypes, data and to brain storm about future development of the project. In the morning David Lane entertained us with his colourful...