Researchers in John Dabiri’s lab have taught a simple submarine robot to take advantage of turbulent forces to propel itself through water. Dabiri and his former graduate student Peter Gunnarson (PhD '24), who is now at Brown University, used CARL-Bot's single onboard accelerometer to measure how it was moving and being pushed around by vortex rings. The team developed simple commands to help CARL detect a vortex ring's relative location and to then position itself to, in Gunnarson's words, "hop