A riotous photography collection from a recent underwater mission off the coast of Chile shows new and fascinating deep-sea ...

Separately, the researchers also developed a soft gripper, which can be attached to a rigid robot. It was tested in the South ...

A team of mechanical engineers at Beihang University, working with a deep-sea diving specialist from the Chinese Academy of ...

Chinese researchers develop a shape-shifting robot that swims, crawls, and glides at 10,600m depths, aiding deep-sea research ...

Mounted on China's manned submersibles — Shenhai Yongshi (Deep Sea Warrior) and Fendouzhe (Striver) — this compact robot type ...

Last week, a Chinese start-up founded by engineers who have risen on the tide of the country’s maritime ambitions, announced it had sold its cutting-edge deep-sea surveillance robots to an ...

Greg Nerantzakis via Unsplash Deep below the surface of the ocean in the South China Sea, a robot named “discovery” searched ...

In deep-sea temperatures of 2 to 4 degrees Celsius, the team attached shape-memory alloy springs to the robot's actuator. By heating the springs with periodic currents to force them to alternately ...

Construction robots in extreme environments encounter various application scenarios, including hazardous work environments, ...

This robot was hunting for rocks ... after for use in renewable energy devices and batteries, for example. But deep-sea mining is a controversial means of obtaining them because of its potentially ...