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U-CAT Robotic Sea Turtle Set To Explore Shipwrecks 23

Posted by samzenpus from the dive-time dept.
Zothecula writes "When was the last time you heard about a sea turtle getting stuck in a shipwreck? Never, that's when. Although that's partly because stuck turtles rarely make the news, it's also due to the fact that they're relatively small and highly maneuverable. With that in mind, the European Union-funded ARROWS project has created U-CAT – a prototype robotic sunken-ship-exploring sea turtle."
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U-CAT Robotic Sea Turtle Set To Explore Shipwrecks

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  • More like a bath toy than a research sub

    • Re:Aaahhhh - it looks cute! (Score:4, Funny)

      by robthebloke ( 1308483 ) on Thursday November 28, 2013 @06:03AM (#45547619)
      Hopefully when the tech has matured and mutated for 15 years or so, it'll be swimming in sewers. I imagine it will have developed a love of renaissance artists by them....
      • Technology for sewer monitoring is incredibly difficult. Active componentry, and even passive componentry tends to fail at an alarming rate due to being immersed in a chemical soup of practically arbitrary composition.

        • "Technology for sewer monitoring is incredibly difficult. Active componentry, and even passive componentry tends to fail at an alarming rate due to being immersed in a chemical soup of practically arbitrary composition."

          Obviously they must be fixed on top of the sewer crocodiles.

        • ... due to being immersed in a chemical soup of practically arbitrary composition.

          The sort of chemical soup that might, um... mutate.. a turtle in a sewer?

  • It's Turtles (Score:5, Funny)

    by weilawei ( 897823 ) on Thursday November 28, 2013 @05:31AM (#45547483)
    All the way down.
  • I for one welcome ... ah, forget it.
  • Hey, those guys are from Estonia! Greetings from Finland to our "little brother" (who is actually doing better than us).

  • It won't work without some modifications.. (Score:4, Insightful)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 28, 2013 @07:39AM (#45547903)

    Real sea turtles have their shell covering the working edges of their flippers - if stuck, they can pull them into/under the shell to clear them of obstructions.

    This thing will get stuck on any kind of vertical string - whether it be a kelp strand, or wire. And it can't pull its fins out of the way.

  • When I first glanced at the title I saw : US Robotics.

    They gonna run a POTS line to the ocean floor?

  • Re: (Score:2, Interesting)

    by account_deleted ( 4530225 )
    Comment removed based on user account deletion
  • Has the anthropomorphization/zoomorphization of robotics aided the technology's development by taking advantage of evolutionary designs or has it been saddled with this rather human propensity to do so? Both?

  • When? (Score:4, Interesting)

    by Ralph Spoilsport ( 673134 ) on Thursday November 28, 2013 @09:37AM (#45548489) Journal
    When was the last time you heard about a sea turtle getting stuck in a shipwreck? Never, that's when.

    When was the last time a sea turtle ever reported to a human that they were trapped in a shipwreck? Never, that's when, and that's why you've never heard about a sea turtle getting stuck in a shipwreck. It's not that it doesn't happen, its that it's never reported due do the fact that turtles and people don't speak the same language...

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