{"id":55886,"date":"2020-03-10T15:31:55","date_gmt":"2020-03-10T19:31:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/engineering\/?page_id=55886"},"modified":"2025-11-24T06:17:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T11:17:07","slug":"hydrobotics","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/engineering\/student-resources\/undergraduate-students\/student-organizations\/hydrobotics\/","title":{"rendered":"Hydrobotics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"fullwidth\">Hydrobotics is a student-run club for undergraduates interested in all things robotics, marine science, and oceanography.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"fullwidth\">The club offers students access&nbsp;to great lab and office facilities on URI&#8217;s Narragansett Bay Campus. These facilities are generously donated by the Department of Ocean Engineering and they allow the club to take on multiple projects of varying&nbsp;scope and scale at the same time. With help from our sponsors in the academic and professional world, the club aims to compete in two&nbsp;competitions&nbsp;hosted by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/robonation.org\/\">RoboNation<\/a>&nbsp;in the coming years. The competitions we aim to compete in are&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/robosub.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">robosub<\/a>&nbsp;and\/or&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/roboboat.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">roboboat<\/a>. Hydro also provides guidance and support for our members that wish to pursue their own projects and studies with funding provided by URI&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/undergraduate-research\/funding\/\">Undergraduate Research Initiative<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"fullwidth\"><strong>Advisor:<br><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/meet\/mingxi-zhou-ph-d\/\">Dr. Mingxi Zhou<br><\/a>Associate Professor<br>College of Engineering: Ocean Engineering<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Contact Information:<br><\/strong>E-Mail:&nbsp; <a href=\"mailto:urihydrobotics@gmail.com\">urihydrobotics@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Social Media:<br><\/strong>Instagram: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/urihydrobotics\/\">@urihydrobotics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2168\/Untitled-design.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-81586\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2168\/Untitled-design.jpg 300w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2168\/Untitled-design-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hydrobotics is a student-run club for undergraduates interested in all things robotics, marine science, and oceanography. The club offers students access&nbsp;to great lab and office facilities on URI&#8217;s Narragansett Bay Campus. These facilities are generously donated by the Department of Ocean Engineering and they allow the club to take on multiple projects of varying&nbsp;scope and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4861,"featured_media":0,"parent":84824,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-55886","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/55886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4861"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55886"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/55886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87106,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/55886\/revisions\/87106"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/84824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}