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 ...

"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 ...

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 deep-sea robot is released onto the seafloor of the Mariana Trench, reaching a depth of 10,666 meters. [Photo provided to China Daily] A team of Chinese scientists has developed a miniature 2.7 ...