Stanford University researchers developed OceanOneK, a humanoid diving robot. The robot is equipped with haptic feedback technology, so the operator can feel the resistance of the water and the contours of found artifacts. The robot also has three-dimensional vision and eight multidirectional motors that help it carefully maneuver in places where fragile shipwrecks are located.
OceanOneK has already worked on real underwater objects: it explored the sunken aircraft Beechcraft Baron F-GDPV, Italian steamship Le Francesco Crispi, a second century Roman ship off the coast of Corsica, a World War II P-38 Lightning aircraft and the submarine Le Protée.
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