Florida Tech grad students are building a manatee robot that will act and look like a manatee, so biologists can get up close and study them without spooking them. One of the main goals is to learn manatee language: what their various squeaks, clicks and clucks - as can be heard here - mean. Audio provided by the Save the Manatee Club

<p>Florida Tech grad students are building a manatee robot that will act and look like a manatee, so biologists can get up close and study them without spooking them. One of the main goals is to learn manatee language: what their various squeaks, clicks and clucks - as can be heard here - mean. Audio provided by the Save the Manatee Club</p>

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