Humanoid robotic diver retrieves treasure trapped for decades
In the medetarian, 20 miles off the southern coast of France. A diver robot "robo-marmaid" visited the flagship of King Louis XIV which sank there in 1664 and no human had touched the ruins – or the countless treasures and artifacts the ship once carried – in the centuries since. With guidance from a team of skilled deep-sea archaeologists who had studied the site, Khatib, a professor of computer science at Stanford.
The robot was being controlled by Khatib who spotted a vase in the under sea expedition and is one of the very first to touch the vase in over the century. Being in remarkably good condition, though it showed every day of its time underwater: The surface was covered in ocean detritus, and it smelled like raw oysters.
The expedition to La Lune was greatly a success to which Khatib hoped of the "OceanOne" to be used in conditions where we humans find dangerous to go. “OceanOne will be your avatar,” Khatib said. “The intent here is to have a human diving virtually, to put the human out of harm’s way. Having a machine that has human characteristics that can project the human diver’s embodiment at depth is going to be amazing.”
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