"I realized half the reason that all of these attempts were failing is, number one, obviously it's hard to make micro-robots survive on the ocean,"
"But number two, they don't have enough data on the ocean to know what the weather is or even know what the ocean conditions are like."
Anahita Laverack shifted from aspiring aerospace engineer to ocean robotics after building a micro-sail robot for the Microtransat Challenge and encountering repeated failures. She concluded failures stemmed from both the difficulty of keeping micro-robots afloat and a lack of ocean condition data. She engaged with ocean-industry conferences and found organizations willing to pay for measurement data. Laverack co-founded Oshen with electrical engineer Ciaran Dowds in April 2022. Oshen develops C-Star autonomous micro-robots that survive roughly 100 days, deploy in swarms to collect ocean data, and were iteratively tested from a 25-foot sailboat without early venture capital.
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