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On the 11 th of November 2025 the Universities of Graz honored their junior inventors in their biannually Inventors Fair and four of our own were included! Link We congratulate Thomas Schmickl, Ronald Thenius, Wiktoria Rajewicz and Nikolaus Helmer for their accomplishment and success!

On October, 30th 2025 we conducted a workshop for testing of enhanced BlueBoat functionality at Auster Freibad . This large outdoor public swimming pool is located in the western part of the city of Graz. Its bassins are closed for swimmers during the winter break. We are greatly thankful to the pool operator team of Holding Graz Freizeit  for this opportunity! In the course of the workshop, we successfully tested automatic path planning and optimized operations of the BlueBo

The new BlueBoat was successfully launched at Lake Millstatt and found fans among the visitors of the Altweibersommer-event. The biohybrid was successfully deployed in the Lake where it will gather animal behaviour and water quality data until its retrieval. We look forward to the results and will keep you in the loop.

The team from Uni-Graz got invited to the Altweibersommer - event of the Österreichische Bundesforste (ÖBF) at Lake Millstatt and three team members were happy to join the celebration. This opportunity was also used for some experiments and testing in the field as well as presenting the project to interested guests of the event. Nikolaus Helmer introduced the BioDiMoBot - Project as well as the future of biohybrids. Johannes Diebold presented the BlueBoat, showcasing the goal