Robot Travels The Briny Deep Looking for Davy Jones’s Locker
By Chief Robot. Filed in Research, Robot News, Science, Water |
The Benthic Rover from the Monterey Bay Aquarium travels the ocean floor, giving scientists a glimpse of what life is like in the briny deep.
The orange and yellow parts of the rover are buoyant foam that helps keep the rover from sinking into the sandy ocean floor.
The rover also contains a custom made titanium sphere to withstand the pressure and house important electronics and batteries. It also moves at only 3 feet per minute so as not to stir up too much sediment and contaminate its readings. It also stops every 10 to 15 feet to take different measurements of its surroundings.
This past July the rover traveled 40 miles of the coast of California and they hope to deploy it again for two months later this fall, where hopefully it will finally find Davey Jones’s Locker or at least some pirate treasure.
