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 ...
Feb 10, 2012 |
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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 ...
Nov 22, 2011 |
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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 ...
Nov 10, 2011 |
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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 ...
Nov 09, 2011 |
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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 ...
Nov 08, 2011 |
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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 ...
Nov 07, 2011 |
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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 ...
Jul 25, 2011 |
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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 ...
Apr 21, 2011 |
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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
Jan 19, 2011 |
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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 ...
Nov 23, 2010 |
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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. ...
Nov 23, 2010 |
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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. ...
Nov 02, 2010 |
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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
Oct 13, 2010 |
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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.
Sep 30, 2010 |
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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.
Aug 24, 2010 |
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