During his lifetime, David Packard was a Silicon Valley pioneer, starting one of the nation’s leading tech companies, Hewlett ...

Scientists at China's Beihang University developed a tiny morphable robot to explore the ocean's depths — and it's now taken ...

As deep-sea robots continue to evolve, they hold the potential to discover new life forms—true deep-sea "aliens"—and unlock secrets hidden in the abyss.

"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.

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 ...

Last week, a Chinese start-up founded by engineers who have risen on the tide of the country’s maritime ambitions, announced it had sold its cutting-edge deep-sea surveillance robots to an ...

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 ...