Category: Sea Robots

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New Species Discovered During Exploration of Abyssal Deep-Sea Canyons off Ningaloo

Unique fauna of the Cape Range and Cloates Canyons off of Ningaloo have been documented at unexplored depths by researchers from the Western Australian Museum aboard Schmidt Ocean Institute’s R/V Falkor. Seemingly the longest animal ever recorded, glass sponges, and octopus squid are among species seen for the first time in Western Australia. PERTH, WESTERN AUSTRALIA – An estimated 150-foot...

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Robot folds itself up and walks away

BOSTON — A team of engineers used little more than paper and Shrinky dinks — the classic children’s toy that shrinks when heated — to build a robot that assembles itself into a complex shape in four minutes flat, and crawls away without any human intervention. The advance, described in Science, demonstrates the potential to quickly and cheaply build sophisticated...

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A new ‘robo-mermaid’ can hunt for deep-sea treasure with a delicate touch

Robots and artificial intelligence have opened doors in the fields of manufacturing and machine learning, but now they have gone where few expected them to go: deep sea diving. Stanford University professor of computer science Oussama Khatib developed his new deep ocean avatar in response to a need to dive deeper than humans can comfortably go. The robot he created,...

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