A couple of months ago, we published a story on an innovative thruster that can be used to remotely operate underwater vehicles and small surface vessels for aquatic exploration. One of the defining features of this thruster is that it is an affordable underwater thruster for the community of hobbyists, educators, students and professionals who are doing marine robotics projects for fun and ecological reasons. From BlueRobotics, this product was a recent winner of Proto Labs Cool Idea! Award.

The engineers at BlueRobotics have recently initiated a Kickstarter campaign to raise funds to launch this product.