{"id":43215,"date":"2026-05-29T15:36:30","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T19:36:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/news\/?p=43215"},"modified":"2026-05-29T15:39:56","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T19:39:56","slug":"a-new-frontier-for-marine-robot-communication-uf-scientists-develop-blueme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/news\/research-innovation\/a-new-frontier-for-marine-robot-communication-uf-scientists-develop-blueme\/","title":{"rendered":"A new frontier for marine robot communication: UF scientists develop BlueME"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list has-light-gray-background-color has-background\">\n<li>UF scientists createdBlueME, a magnetoelectric antenna that lets underwater robots communicate over 700\u202fmeters.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The robot\u2011to\u2011robot links enable real\u2011time decision\u2011making and data collection without plucking the robots out of the water.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>With a complete prototype, the researchers are seeking funding to continue the research.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>From the shallow shores of Lake Wahlberg to the salty depths of the ocean, University of Florida researchers are dropping robots in the water and training them to communicate more efficiently in murky conditions.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Their goal is to underwater robots share information over longer distances within compact, energy-efficient equipment \u2014 a capability that could improve everything from naval operations to environmental monitoring and offshore infrastructure inspections.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The project, led by Md Jahidul Islam, Ph.D., and Adam Khalifa, Ph.D., assistant professors in UFs Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, combines UF expertise in marine robotics, wireless systems and magnetoelectric device design.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The team&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/ieeexplore.ieee.org\/document\/11506063\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">recent paper<\/a>, \u201cBlueME: Robust Underwater Robot-to-Robot Communication Using Compact Magnetoelectric Antennas,\u201d was published through the IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering, or JOE, with co-authors Mehron Talebi and Sultan Mahmud.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.ufl.edu\/2026\/05\/marine-robot-communication\/\">Read full story on news.ufl.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UF scientists createdBlueME, a magnetoelectric antenna that lets underwater robots communicate over 700\u202fmeters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":43219,"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":[],"class_list":["post-43215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ece","category-stories","category-research-innovation"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43215","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43215"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43221,"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43215\/revisions\/43221"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}