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ScubaRC Genesis · Community Compute & Commonwealth Surf

Question: Will people voluntarily participate, and can a browser return a result that is checked and saved?

Available now: A free browser game with server-verified scores and a separate, opt-in synthetic compute task with result receipts. These demonstrate participation and infrastructure; they do not establish scientific utility or a count of unique human participants.

Engineering discipline: Genesis uses immutable release candidates, independent admission, server-authoritative verification, adversarial timing/security testing, production rollback controls, real-device QA, and a formal post-mission lessons-learned process.

Next evidence needed: Completion and failure rates across devices, repeat participation, and a suitable public-data workload chosen with a domain researcher.

Perception, computation, and human judgment in the physical world.

ATHENA and ARES connect ScubaRC’s work on sensing and field computing to advanced robotics. Application areas under investigation include remote inspection, environmental observation, operator assistance, and human-supervised work in difficult environments.

Key research questions include how to communicate uncertainty, maintain useful operation when connectivity degrades, and give people clear control over machine actions. Evaluation needs to measure perception errors, response time, recovery, and operator workload.

These are development directions, not claims of a deployed autonomous robot or a validated safety-critical system. We welcome robotics, controls, sensing, and human-factors collaborators to define bounded demonstrations and meaningful benchmarks.

Make the evidence useful to a reviewer.

We distinguish proposed work from completed work, prototypes from products, and hypotheses from validated findings. Public materials describe problems, principles, methods, and results at a level appropriate for responsible review.