A team has shown that reinforcement learning -i.e., a neural network that learns the best action to perform at each moment based on a series of rewards- allows autonomous vehicles and underwater ...

Underwater robots face many challenges before they can truly master the deep, such as stability in choppy currents. A new ...

HOUSTON – (April 25, 2024) – A remotely operated underwater robot built by a team of Rice University engineering students pioneers a new way to control buoyancy via water-splitting fuel cells. The ...

With the advancement of ocean detection technology, autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) have become an indispensable tool for exploring unknown underwater environments. However, existing sensors ...

Engineers have taught a simple submarine robot to take advantage of turbulent forces to propel itself through water. Small autonomous underwater vehicles, like the drones of the sea, could be very ...

There's a special robot that can explore underwater with ease-and it's not like any other machines you previously saw. The remarkable innovation known as "HERO-BLUE" is a new type of remotely operated ...

Marine litter is a major environmental problem around the world. As part of the EU project SEACLEAR, a research team at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has now developed an autonomous diving ...

(Nanowerk News) Scientists at the University of Southampton and University of Edinburgh have developed a flexible underwater robot that can propel itself through water in the same style as nature's ...

From fire-breathers to sprinters, climbers and gymnasts, we've seen more than our fair share of impressive quadruped robots. Now the fourth-generation Honey Badger has added underwater walkies to the ...

The UK Navy has started testing an advanced underwater robot designed to protect critical undersea cables and pipelines by identifying and neutralizing potential sabotage threats. The remotely ...