News tagged with underwater robot

Engineering images bring life to submerged city

(PhysOrg.com) -- Photo-realistic 3D mapping and digital reconstruction of an ancient underwater city in Greece have earned a team from the University of Sydney's Faculty of Engineering and Information Technologies ...

Technology / Engineering

created Feb 10, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 4

Chevron faces $145 million in possible Brazil fines

Brazil could slap fines of more than $145 million (105 million euros) on Chevron over its oil spill, and the US energy giant could be barred from operating in the country's deepwater fields, officials said ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 22, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Helping robots hold on

Since the 1970s, when early autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) were developed at MIT, Institute scientists have tackled various barriers to robots that can travel autonomously in the deep ocean. This fo ...

Technology / Engineering

created Nov 10, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Going with the flow: Biomimetic pressure sensors help guide oceangoing vessels

Since the 1970s, when early autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) were developed at MIT, Institute scientists have tackled various barriers to robots that can travel autonomously in the deep ocean. This fo ...

Technology / Engineering

created Nov 09, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Advanced mathematical techniques enable AUVs to survey large, complex and cluttered seascapes

Since the 1970s, when early autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) were developed at MIT, Institute scientists have tackled various barriers to robots that can travel autonomously in the deep ocean. This fo ...

Technology / Engineering

created Nov 08, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

AUVs: From idea to implementation

Since the 1970s, when early autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) were developed at MIT, Institute scientists have tackled various barriers to robots that can travel autonomously in the deep ocean. This fo ...

Technology / Engineering

created Nov 07, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Exploring science through underwater robotics

Across the country this summer, middle and high school students are making a splash by discovering science and engineering while building programmable robots to accomplish underwater missions. "WaterBotics," an innovative ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Jul 25, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Japan, U.S. team deploys underwater robots to coast

A team of research and industry experts with four state-of-the-art small underwater vehicles from the United States-based Center for Robot-Assisted Search and Rescue (CRASAR) are working with the Japanese-based ...

Electronics / Robotics

created Apr 21, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Underwater glider sets 2 Antarctic firsts

Researcher Walker Smith of the Virginia Institute of Marine Science, College of William and Mary, has been conducting shipboard studies of biological productivity in Antarctica's Ross Sea for the last three ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jan 19, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Bizarre squidworm discovered

The bizarre, newly-revealed squidworm -- a free-swimming worm with up to 10 squid-like limbs -- is one of a host of strange discoveries that await scientists in the vast, largely unexplored spaces of the deep ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 23, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (16) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Underwater robots on course to the deep sea

Robots do not have to breathe. For this reason they can dive longer than any human. Equipped with the necessary sensor technology they inspect docks or venture down to the ocean floor to search for raw materials. ...

Technology / Engineering

created Nov 23, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The deep sea, from a robot's perspective

Robots do not have to breathe. For this reason they can dive longer than any human. Equipped with the necessary sensor technology they inspect docks or venture down to the ocean fl oor to search for raw materials. ...

Technology / Engineering

created Nov 02, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

UBC underwater robot to explore Antarctic ice (w/ Video)

Researchers at the University of British Columbia are deploying an underwater robot to survey ice-covered ocean in Antarctica from October 17 through November 12.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Oct 13, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Underwater robot swims free thanks to newly-designed wireless controller (w/ Video)

A waterproof controller designed and built by York University researchers is allowing an underwater robot to go "wireless" in a unique way.

Technology / Engineering

created Sep 30, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Snow crabs found clustered around methane vents at bottom of Sea of Japan

Large clusters of a type of snow crab called benizuwaigani have been discovered around methane vents at the bottom of the Sea of Japan, but scientists are not quite sure why.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Aug 24, 2010 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 3