These new robots will plunge into the ocean’s most alien depths

These new robots will plunge into the ocean’s most alien depths

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Post Views: 344 At the bottom of the Mariana Trench, at a place called the Challenger Deep near Guam, 36,000 feet beneath the surface of the ocean, the pressures from the water above reach a crushing eight tons per square inch—about a thousand times the standard atmospheric pressure at sea level. Some comparisons ask us…

This tiny AI-powered robot is learning to explore the ocean on its own

This tiny AI-powered robot is learning to explore the ocean on its own

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Post Views: 337 “We’re imagining an approach for global ocean exploration where you take swarms of smaller robots of various types and populate the ocean with them for tracking, for climate change, for understanding the physics of the ocean,” says John O. Dabiri, a professor of aeronautics and mechanical engineering at the California Institute of…

The US Navy is testing autonomous seafaring robots that patrol the ocean

The US Navy is testing autonomous seafaring robots that patrol the ocean

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Post Views: 287 Saildrones can be outfitted with a range of sensors. The version of the robotic surfer that Popular Science selected for a 2021 Best of What’s New award was used by NOAA to track hurricane winds. The drones can carry sensors for wind speed and direction, for air temperature and humidity, for measuring…

Boaty McBoatface’s new mission is more serious than its name

Boaty McBoatface’s new mission is more serious than its name

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Post Views: 297 Boaty’s job is to measure temperature, salinity, current velocity, turbulence, turbidity, and dissolved oxygen in water as it charts a path through the icy underworld. Scientists can then use this data to understand how variations in these conditions affect the behavior and stability of local ice shelves. Another underwater robot, Ran, is…