Team KUROSHIO won the Jury’s Special Award in the 9th Robot Award
March 16, 2021
News
Team KUROSHIO won the Jury’s Special Award in the 9th Robot Award.
The Robot Award is co-sponsored by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, the Japan Machinery Federation, and the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology. This award is for robots and robot-related business/social implementations, robot application systems, elemental technologies, advanced ICT basic technologies, R&D, and human resource development, which are considered to have high contributions and expectations for future market creation.
The Team KUROSHIO project team scored highly on developing a mothership-less seafloor survey system. The system that conducts seafloor observations using underwater robots, demonstrates that surveys can be conducted without a mother ship and explores areas with no prior experience such as off-coast Greece by creating a detailed seafloor map. Team KUROSHIO won the runner-up prize in the Shell Ocean Discovery XPRIZE.
Awarded title
Development and demonstration of offshore and underwater robot systems that enable mothership-less seafloor surveys.
-
The award ceremony was held on March 12th at the Kikai Shinko Kaikan building.
- 9th Robot Award
- Team KUROSHIO HP
Team KUROSHIO
The seafloor exploration team include members from the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), Institute of Industrial Science, University of Tokyo, Kyushu Institute of Technology, National Institute of Maritime, Port and Aviation Technology, Mitsui E&S Shipbuilding, Nippon Marine Enterprises, KDDI Research and Yamaha Motor.