Inspired by Batfish, Chinese Research Team Develops Miniature Deep-Sea Morphable Robot Capable of Swimming, Gliding, and Crawling in the Mariana Trench
At the depths of the Mariana Trench, where the pressure is equivalent to a one-ton rhinoceros standing on a fingernail and the temperature approaches freezing, deep-sea robots that could reach this area were mostly large rigid submersibles weighing several tons. For small robots under one meter in length, the extreme environment here was once a … Read more