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I am a pre-final year undergraduate engineering student doing my major (B.Tech.) in Electrical Engineering from *Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (India)* which is one of the premier engineering institutes of the world.

I am really fascinated by the article.The following lines really stimulate me:

1> " For example, one set works like a dolphin's flippers, while another functions more like a cockroach's legs.Alternatively, the robot can use the visual information to home in autonomously on targets such as a scuba tank or brightly colored objects, a robotic behavior known as “visual servoing.” "

2> "Idyllic as it may sound, working with expensive electronics on sandy beaches and in seawater is not easy."

3> "One was how to keep Aqua from overheating. Underwater, it worked fine. On land, keeping it in the shade as much as possible seemed to be the low-tech answer.The much larger problem, however, was how to make the vision and control modules operate optimally without crashing—the same problem that had plagued the robot before our departure from Montreal."

4> "Aqua, which releases no bubbles and is much smaller than a human, can collect similar data using its underwater cameras while being less intrusive to the fish."

Ironically, in India, we have the sacred river Ganges, that is increasingly getting polluted and yet there is no significant work that is being carried out to protect her integrity.

Hope, your team comes out victorious and sets an example.