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Robotic Crab Built to Explore the Underwater World

Robotic Crab Built to Explore the Underwater World

The Crabster CR200 standing up Researchers from the Korean Institute of Ocean Science and Technology (KIOST) developed a 6 legged robot crab that can travel and explore the underwater world even in rough conditions and go where no (robot) has ...

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EGO: The Ship-Sub with a Giant Underwater Window

EGO: The Ship-Sub with a Giant Underwater Window

EGO – outside the water EGO – giant glass window getting into the lower level of the EGO Korean company Raonhaje developed what it is calling the first compact “semi-submarine” – part boat part sub which gives its passengers a ...

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Underwater Surveillance Robojelly Developed

Underwater Surveillance Robojelly Developed

Robojelly with uniform bell in water (Credit: Virginia Polytechnic Institute) A unique multi university research initiative funded by the U.S. Navy has resulted in a new generation of robotic-like jellyfish. The movement of the robot though water which has been ...

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Killer Whale Personal Submarine

Killer Whale Personal Submarine

Killer Whale Submarine (credit: Hammacher Schlemmer) Killer Whale Submarine (credit: Hammacher Schlemmer) Killer Whale Submarine interior (credit: Hammacher Schlemmer) After personal jets and personal yachts comes the turn of a personal submersible. What used to belong only to the military ...

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Bone Setting Glue

Bone Setting Glue

Researchers at the University of Utah have developed a new glue that sticks to bone and other wet surfaces. The glue, based on the adhesive used by sandcastle worms building their underwater homes, turns from liquid to solid as it ...

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Odyssey IV – Hovering Underwater Robot

Odyssey IV – Hovering Underwater Robot

MIT researchers have designed an underwater robotic craft dubbed Odyssey IV. This new, small, and inexpensive vehicle is capable of hovering in place much like a helicopter. In addition, it can move in a speed of up to two meters ...

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Hyper-Sub Powerboat

Hyper-Sub Powerboat

Marion Hyper-Submersible Powerboat Design, a privately-held Company formed in 2005 and located in Florida, has developed a revolutionary Hyper-Sub. The vessel is capable of cruising at speeds of 45 mph on the surface with its standard twin 440 horsepower diesel ...

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Diving to the Bottom

Diving to the Bottom

On July 29, 15:15 local time, Russian scientists from the P. P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology managed to dive using a manned MIR submersible to a depth of 1,680 meters — the very bottom of the world’s deepest lake, Lake ...

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Seagliders Explorers

Seagliders Explorers

Seagliders are the result of a collaborative effort between the University of Washington’s Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) and the university’s School of Oceanography. These autonomous underwater vehicles are used to gather valuable information such as conductivity-temperature-depth (CTD) data at a ...

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