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Title: Can Robots help with deep sea research?
Post by: thedoc on 17/04/2012 16:52:41

A little while ago, the French were looking at designing robots to explore deep sea trenches in the Philippines. Is this the sort of technology that we need to be looking at, getting robots, getting automated devices, to do our research for us?
Asked by Roy, Lincolnshire


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Title: Can Robots help with deep sea research?
Post by: thedoc on 17/04/2012 16:52:41

We answered this question on the show...



I think remotely operated vehicles are one of the key tools we have now. 
I know that James Cameron has just built this manned-submersible but as soon as you have a human being inside it, you're completely limited on bottom time and you know, there's a danger in there and it’s such horrendous support costs associated with that. 
So I think that the idea is to do it all robotically or remotely from the surface.

Title: Re: Can Robots help with deep sea research?
Post by: Sprool on 20/04/2012 12:21:23

this is a bit of a non-question really since robotics is already extensively used for these areas.