While this expedition was a trial, it marked a significant step toward integrating robots into standard marine research.

Remotely-operated underwater vehicles (ROVs) are robots that complete functions underwater on behalf of a crew ... Other tools commonly implemented on ROVs include: mechanical manipulators, sonar, ...

An invasive species wreaking havoc in Brazil may soon experience its downfall after researchers developed a "promising" system with underwater robotics ... to activate a type of "underwater ...

NASA tests small underwater robots designed to explore icy moons' hidden oceans. The prototype called SWIM, which stands for Sensing With Independent Micro-swimmers, was constructed at NASA's Jet ...

"People might ask, why is NASA developing an underwater robot for space exploration?" said Ethan Schaler, the project's principal investigator at JPL. "It's because there are places we want to go ...