# Science Has Fun: Archaeological Robots at the Montpellier Herbarium
Welcome to the program co-produced by the University of Montpellier and Divergence-FM, which takes you on a tour of the laboratories of the Muse archipelago. And for this first episode, Vincent Creuze from LIRMM talks to us about archaeological robots, and Caroline Loup gives us a tour of the Montpellier herbarium.
Today, we invite you to join us on a dive 120 meters below the surface into the dark waters of the Bay of Biscay, where adventure lies at the intersection of robotics and archaeology. Our guest today is Vincent Creuze. He is a robotics engineer at the Montpellier Laboratory of Computer Science, Robotics, and Microelectronics (LIRMM). Last July, he took part in a preventive archaeology mission alongside Basile, his underwater robot, and he tells us all about it on La Science s’aMuse.
In the second half of the program, the segment *En salle des machines* takes you on a tour of an unusual place, and this week Caroline Loup opens the doors to the Montpellier Herbarium.
Finally, Amrin Nagamia will join us with his segment on startup news, and today’s spotlight is on Bulane, a company taking on the challenge of turning water into fire.
Learn more:
About Vincent Creuze and his underwater robots:
- Cutting-edge technologies in the service of underwater archaeology, The Conversation
- An underwater robot for preventive archaeology, CNRS News
- Special issue on underwater archaeology in the journal Archeologia
In the herbarium:
- Explore the entire digitized collection of the Montpellier Herbarium on the website of the National Museum of Natural History https://explore.recolnat.org/ On September 26 at 11:30 p.m., France 3 Occitanie will air Marie-Christine Fourneaux’s documentary, *L’herbier des pétales aux pixels*.
Science is Fun—you’ve got the ticket, let’s go!
Production: Divergence-fm and University of Montpellier
Host: Lucie Lecherbonnier
Interview and reporting: Aline Périault and Lucie Lecherbonnier
Editing: Lucie Lecherbonnier
Feature: Amrin Nagamia
Director: Bruno Bertrand
Tune in to the show “A LUM LA SCIENCE” on Divergence FM 93.9
