‘Robo-mermaid’ able to reach depths too hazardous for human divers retrieves vase from wreck of Louis XIV’s flagshipRobotics scientists at the US’s Stanford University beget achieved a remarkable first: they beget successfully sent an automated avatar – which they describe as a robo-mermaid – down to an ancient shipwreck to retrieve a vase from the sunken vessel.
La Lune,the flagship of Louis XIV of France, sank 20 miles off the south coast city of Toulon in 1664. Only a few dozen of the hundreds of men on board survived. The wreck, or which lies at a depth of 100 metres,had never been disturbed until the OceanOne robot craft reached it two weeks ago and recovered the grapefruit-size vase.
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Source: theguardian.com