If someone asked you to move like a robot and you responded with the fluid art of ballet, your audience would be baffled, yet ...

If scuba divers use inflatable BCDs (buoyancy control devices), why don't underwater robots? Well, an experimental new one does, and the technology is said to be much more energy-efficient than ...

The latest triumph in ocean technology comes from a small, rugged machine that slipped beneath Antarctic ice into a part of the planet no human has ever seen, gathered a torrent of data, and then did ...

When Jonas Wüst first met rescue divers in Switzerland, what struck him wasn’t their courage, it was how much danger still defined their work. “We realized how outdated it all was,” he recalls.

Autonomous underwater robots give marine scientists the opportunity to study what happens during an algae bloom in both time and space. Kongsfjorden, Svalbard, May 2022: It's spring, the sun is ...

All 50 campers tested their robots in the pool. A previous version of this article misidentified the number of campers who tested robots. Mizzou Engineering’s three-day youth underwater robotics camp ...

As oil and gas fields in shallower waters are depleted and operators seek to access deeper reserves, underwater robots have surfaced as crucial tools for industrial progress. The devices are known by ...

Placement and powering of an AUV's propulsion motor. AUV battery chemisty and battery pack. Underwater docking and charging. Autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) typically feature high efficiency and ...

An underwater robot can delicately propel itself in any direction with its 12 flexible arms, inspired by the flagella of bacteria. Its creators claim it can carry out underwater inspections without ...