A lamprey’s mouth has inspired a new suction device that can grip in air and underwater. The design aims to solve a ...

If someone asked you to move like a robot and you responded with the fluid art of ballet, your audience would be baffled, yet ...

Coordinating groups of underwater robots is difficult because communication below the surface is slow and unreliable. GPS ...

The latest triumph in ocean technology comes from a small, rugged machine that slipped beneath Antarctic ice into a part of the planet no human has ever seen, gathered a torrent of data, and then did ...

Soft robotics, which uses flexible and deformable materials, is an emerging field in autonomous systems. It has recently been applied to next-generation tasks such as deep-sea sampling with soft ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Smart Grapple is capable of lifting individual items of trash weighing up to 250 kilograms (550 pounds). - Andreas Schmitz/TUM ...

When Jonas Wüst first met rescue divers in Switzerland, what struck him wasn’t their courage, it was how much danger still defined their work. “We realized how outdated it all was,” he recalls.

An underwater robot circled the wreck site of the USS Monitor to get new high-res images of the famous ship.

A robot explores the dark, cold, deep sea floor of the South Atlantic, transmitting images of vibrant coral and fish never seen before as scientists give live commentary via YouTube. And Argentines ...

Researchers from the University of Delaware’s College of Earth, Ocean and Environment helped lead the charge of underwater discovery in 2025, leading research cruises that each employed one of the ...

All 50 campers tested their robots in the pool. A previous version of this article misidentified the number of campers who tested robots. Mizzou Engineering’s three-day youth underwater robotics camp ...

Between 1950 and 2020, 32 million metric tons of plastic accumulated in the ocean, according to one estimate — the weight of over 200,000 blue whales. Without any additional action, that figure is ...