And, worst of all, the pressure is so immense that even many species of weathered deep-sea marine life can't live there. So, ...

A colossal squid has been captured on camera for the first time in the deep sea by an international team of researchers ...

Deep below the surface of the ocean in the South China Sea, a robot named “discovery” searched the seafloor for life. Faxian, meaning discovery in Chinese, is a remote-operated vehicle submersible ...

"The core part of our robot is a centimeter-scale deep-sea soft actuator that weighs 16 grams. It incorporates bistable chiral metamaterials and tube-sealed shape-memory alloys," he said.

Underwater robots are vital to unlocking the secrets of the deep sea - which remains Earth's least understood environment. However, previous designs have been clumsy and difficult to manoeuvre.

BEIJING, 31 March (BelTA - China Daily) - A team of Chinese scientists has developed a miniature 2.7-kilogram deep-sea robot to explore the deepest natural frontier on Earth — the Mariana Trench ...

In deep-sea temperatures of 2 to 4 degrees Celsius, the team attached shape-memory alloy springs to the robot's actuator. By heating the springs with periodic currents to force them to alternately ...

A robot exploring Earth's oceans has officially reached the world's deepest point, as it continues its search for new forms of deep sea life. Robots are often our only way of exploring places too ...

A SHAPESHIFTING robot submarine has reached Earth's deepest point - 36,000ft underwater - in search of deep-sea "aliens". The tiny Chinese drone survived a mission to the bottom of the Mariana ...