Underwater robots are regularly used by the oil and gas industry to inspect and maintain offshore structures. The same machines could be adapted to gather extra scientific information, thus boosting environmental and resource ...
Plants & Animals
Apr 15, 2020
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Bundled in snow gear and wielding a chainsaw, a team of engineers cut a rectangular block from the solid ice underfoot, carving an entryway for their underwater robot. They plopped the torpedo-shaped vehicle, named Polaris, ...
Earth Sciences
Mar 4, 2020
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For 18 days, an underwater robot dived and surfaced and dived and surfaced—some 402 times in all—listening to the ocean's depths as it traveled hundreds of miles along the continental shelf off the Washington and Oregon ...
Earth Sciences
Dec 23, 2019
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Low-cost acoustic tags attached to fishing nets are being trialled as part of a major new project to reduce marine litter and 'ghost fishing'.
Environment
Apr 30, 2019
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In late September 2018, MBARI engineers demonstrated a new use for MBARI's long-range autonomous underwater vehicles (LRAUVs)—detecting and tracking oil spills. Working with the US Coast Guard and collaborators at Woods ...
Earth Sciences
Oct 23, 2018
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An underwater robot captured images of solidified lava-like rocks Friday inside a damaged reactor at Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant, spotting for the first time what is believed to be nuclear fuel that melted six ...
Energy & Green Tech
Jul 21, 2017
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Scientists from Britain and India will release underwater robots into the Bay of Bengal in a bid to more accurately predict the Indian monsoon critical to millions of farmers, they said on Tuesday.
Earth Sciences
Jun 14, 2016
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An underwater robot exploring Loch Ness has discovered a dark, monster-shaped mass in its depths.
Earth Sciences
Apr 14, 2016
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A group of students in Guam is learning about the connection between marine robotics and environmental sustainability by creating their own underwater robots.
Robotics
Dec 24, 2015
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An underwater robot initially built to help astronauts train for life in weightlessness is now being tested in the Mediterranean Sea. One day, robots like this may carry out sophisticated missions on our ocean floors, from ...
Space Exploration
Oct 26, 2015
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