Program Area
Education, Environment, Arts & CultureLocation of Impact
Global, DominicaHeadquarters Location
New York, Dominica, New York, United States
Product Platforms
Open Source, Web, HardwareBudget
$1,000,000 +
Project CETI (Cetacean Translation Initiative), a nonprofit organization, 2020 TED Audacious Project, is applying advanced machine learning and gentle robotics to decipher the communication of the world’s most enigmatic ocean species: the sperm whale. In interpreting their voices and hopefully communicating back, we aim to show that today’s most cutting-edge technologies can be used to benefit not only humankind, but other species on this planet. By enabling humans to deeply understand and protect the life around us, we thereby redefine our very understanding of the word “we.”