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NextGEN Innovation

WHOI machinist and resident facilitator D.C. Collasius (left) and Judson Poole, an engineer assistant, at work in the Dunkworks Lab—a state-of-the-art, rapid-prototyping center that opened its doors last summer. The Center for Marine Robotics, which recently received a NextGEN award by the Massachusetts TechHUB Caucus, operates the collaborative facility. Dunkworks is available to marine robotics businesses on a membership-fee basis and allows users to quickly take designs from concept to tested devices that are ready for application in the ocean. (Photo by Tom Kleindinst, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)