BREMEN, Germany (AFP) – A new deep-sea robot is to be deployed in the northern Pacific and send back images from the ocean depths to the Internet as part of a global research project on underwater ecosystems.
The International University Bremen (IUB) in northern Germany presented a prototype Monday of the Deep Sea Crawler, which can transmit measurements and video footage from depths of up to 6,000 meters (19,700 feet) below the sea to the Internet using a web camera connected to a fiber optic cable.
While there are robots that are busy crawling the Martian terrain, here is their sibling swimming in the Terran oceans. I hope to see good images, too.
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