Finding and disposing of mines lurking on the sea floor is dangerous and difficult work. The US Navy wants robotic crawlers capable of descending to nearly 2,000 feet underwater to do this. The ...

Known as the Benthic Rover II, the deep-sea autonomous vehicle was designed by a team at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI). For the past seven years, it has been continually in use ...

The Mariana Trench, the lowest point in the ocean on our planet, has also been problematic for scientists and engineers. More than 10,000 meters deep, the record pressure and sub-freezing temperatures ...