How do you get to the depths of the ocean where it's not safe for humans to dive? By making a robot guy with a sense of touch.
The humanoid robot, named OceanOneK, just finished another underwater expedition.
CNN reported over the weekend that there are many people who have explored everything from sunken submarine to airplane wrecks.
Despite its frightening appearance, the feature-packed guy is able.
OceanOneK has a system that lets the operator feel the pressure and resistance of the water, as well as 3D vision, and a system that allows the operator to see objects in the water.
"You are moving very close to this amazing structure, and something incredible happens when you touch it: You actually feel it," said Oussama Khatib, director of theStanford Robotics Lab, in a press release, describing his experience using the robot to explore a sunken steamship
If you want to use OceanOneK to recover rare artifacts, you need to know the force necessary to interact with objects without damaging them.
Compared to remotely operated underwater vehicles, the robot makes for a more realistic diving experience.
OceanK is impervious to pressure levels of nearly 3,300 feet below the surface.
OceanOneK has its fair share of maintenance problems, including disabled arms, but it's still a robot.
Scientists have been able to get the robot working again.
It takes a lot of out-of-the-box thinking to make those solutions work.
OceanOneK was founded in 2016 and has been working on improvements ever since. The robot placed a camera inside a wrecked steamship and retrieved artifacts from a watery grave.
A successor may be set for space. The European Space Agency is interested in the matter.
It would be amazing if they could interact with the robot in the water, because it would be a simulation of doing this on a different planet or different moon.
Scientists created a robot that looked like a living skin.
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