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Manta-shaped aquatic robot either saves lives or causes heart attacks

Wednesday, October 1, 2008 - 11:42am

Looks like if Baywatch ever airs again, it'll be filled with less rippling bodies and more autonomous underwater rescue vehicles — AUVs that would look pretty darn scary circling around you in the water. The Mantra is a concept...

20,000 Feet Below The Sea: MIT's underwater robot explores the ocean all alone

Kevin Hall

Monday, September 29, 2008 - 1:37pm

Once the Odyssey IV dives below the surface, it's all on its own. Developed by MIT's Sea Grant Program, the Odyssey IV autonomous underwater vehicle (or AUV) is designed to explore deep down below the ocean — as far...

Finnegan the RoboTurtle takes a page from Mother Nature

Kevin Hall

Monday, April 21, 2008 - 4:44am

Your average autonomous underwater vehicle (or AUV) uses propellers or jets to maneuver underwater, but Finnegan the RoboTurtle, described as an "agile and aggressively maneuvering biomimetic autonomous underwater vehicle," is shaking things up with a new way to get...

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Manta-shaped aquatic robot either saves lives or causes heart attacks

20,000 Feet Below The Sea: MIT's underwater robot explores the ocean all alone

Finnegan the RoboTurtle takes a page from Mother Nature

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