Researchers have created a tiny, shape-shifting robot that swims, crawls, and glides freely in the deep sea. Developed by a team at the Beihang University in China, the robot operated at a depth ...

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 ...

"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.

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 the western Pacific Ocean, according ...

The high-tech explorer marks a revolution in the world of deep-sea robotics, which is our portal to understanding the "alien" world down there. At just 50cm long, the bot was designed to withstand ...