{"id":42579,"date":"2026-03-10T15:09:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T19:09:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/news\/?p=42579"},"modified":"2026-05-22T15:13:57","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T19:13:57","slug":"ufs-robopi-lab-making-waves-with-marine-robots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/news\/ece\/ufs-robopi-lab-making-waves-with-marine-robots\/","title":{"rendered":"UF\u2019s RoboPI lab making waves with marine robots"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The ocean&nbsp;is unforgiving,&nbsp;Md&nbsp;Jahidul\u202fIslam, Ph.D., will tell you.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSignals attenuate, GPS disappears, visibility collapses and communication is limited,\u201d said Islam, the&nbsp;Yangbin&nbsp;Wang Rising Star Endowed Assistant Professor\u202fwith the Department of&nbsp;Electrical and Computer Engineering.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And as director of the&nbsp;University of Florida\u2019s&nbsp;RoboPI&nbsp;Laboratory, Islam&nbsp;is immersed in&nbsp;marine&nbsp;robotics research to ease the danger for humans working and exploring in the ocean.&nbsp;With other UF researchers, he&nbsp;is also&nbsp;helping&nbsp;protect&nbsp;underwater&nbsp;computer hardware&nbsp;from cyberattacks.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Islam&nbsp;oversees&nbsp;the overall vision and technical direction&nbsp;of UF\u2019s&nbsp;marine&nbsp;robotics research.&nbsp;He said this research&nbsp;includes defining core scientific questions, mentoring&nbsp;students&nbsp;and guiding system integration&nbsp;for robotics&nbsp;from algorithm design to ocean deployment.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.ece.ufl.edu\/2026\/03\/09\/ufs-robopi-lab-making-waves-with-marine-robots\/\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/news.ece.ufl.edu\/2026\/03\/09\/ufs-robopi-lab-making-waves-with-marine-robots\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read full story on ECE News.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering\u2019s RoboPI Laboratory are developing intelligent marine robots to explore the ocean, monitor ecosystems and help protect critical underwater infrastructure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2592,"featured_media":42581,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"single-templates\/single-sidebar-none.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"featured_post":"off","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[15,57,61],"tags":[515],"class_list":["post-42579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ece","category-stories","category-research-innovation","tag-md-jahidul-islam"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2592"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42579"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42583,"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42579\/revisions\/42583"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}