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Using underwater robots for a better understanding of the underwater world

Posted: 19 Sep 2014 05:38 AM PDT

It is where we all came from and it is vital to our future, but Earth's oceans, seas and waterways remain a mystery to us – a final frontier. A new project is at the forefront of a revolution in communications, creating an underwater 'internet of things', that will mobilize robots to work in groups, interacting together and passing back information to us on life underwater.