A team of researchers at EPFL’s School of Engineering and the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems has created a ...

Peter Gunnarson and John O. Dabiri designed an underwater robot that makes use of these flows to cut down on the energy needed to travel, “surfing” vortices to make its way to its destination.

As oil and gas fields in shallower waters are depleted and operators seek to access deeper reserves, underwater robots have surfaced as crucial tools for industrial progress. The devices are known ...

Autonomous underwater robots give marine scientists the opportunity to study what happens during an algae bloom in both time and space. Kongsfjorden, Svalbard, May 2022: It's spring, the sun is ...

They are difficult to analyze in detail," says Mo-Bjørkelund. The robots are two lightweight autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) that have been programmed to move around in the water and detect ...