The aerospace engineer disrupting traffic in congested cities | Sampriti Bhattacharyya | TEDxBoston скачать в хорошем качестве

The aerospace engineer disrupting traffic in congested cities | Sampriti Bhattacharyya | TEDxBoston

NOTE FROM TED: TEDx events are independently organized by volunteers. The guidelines we give TEDx organizers are described in more detail here: http://storage.ted.com/tedx/manuals/t... She's a maritime robotics expert, too, which may give a hint to her proposed disruption... Sampriti Bhattacharyya is an MIT-trained technologist and entrepreneur innovating underutilized urban waterways. Her team is developing carbon fiber electric hydrofoil boats that could be deployed for short trip water transport at scale. By leveraging converging technologies, new possibilities to provide cost-effective and sustainable travel are emerging. Cheaper, faster compute and sensing capabilities, with the proliferation of electrification infrastructure, and advancements in scalable manufacturing are making a decades-old pipe dream a feasible option. It's a potential game changer for city mobility. 46% of the population lives in coastal cities, a number that set to climb in coming decades. By activating the waterways of our coastal cities, Sampriti paints a picture of a future with more accessibility, enjoyment, opportunity, equity, and sustainability. Sampriti Bhattacharyya is an MIT grad student who has developed underwater drones that are capable of autonomously communicating and working together to scan the ocean to look for lost planes, or measure oil spills or radiation under the sea. Her company, Hydroswarm, was awarded a top prize at MassChallenge accelerator program. As co-founder of Navier, Sampriti is working with hydrofoil tech to deploy affordable and efficient water taxis to urban centers to reinvent mass transit. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx