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RU-27
RU-27
, dubbed
Scarlet
Knight
after the
Rutgers Scarlet Knights
athletic
teams
, is an experimental
American
autonomous underwater vehicle
– a
modified
Slocum Autonomous Underwater Gliding Vehicle
–
operated by
Rutgers University
oceanographers
. In
December 2009
,
Scarlet Knight
was the first
robot
to cross
the Atlantic
Ocean underwater, which took it
221
days
.