Stanford's humanoid robot explores an abandoned shipwreck 

Hey, a good idea is a good idea. Just because someone has Stanford on their CV doesn't make them think of everything. A head is meant to be a support for a brain, ears, nose, mouth, eyes and facial skin sensors. If all you need is an eye, drop the rest.

+Shadow Heart The ROV (Remotelly Operated Vehicle) that was invented in the 70s and upgraded with the latest technology since that time. It is widely used in the Oil&Gas industry. This humanoid project looks great. But the "problem" it seems to want to fix has already been solved since 1970. www.wikiwand.com/en/Remotely_operated_underwater_vehicle The ROV uses hidraulic pressure to protect the system.

Ahh stop pushing the increase production for climate change agenda. If CO2 is the problem, then the only solution is to decrease demand for new technology, not increase it. Productions creates the problem that you believe will be solved by more production. Population growth has to stop as well.

I´m not too scared, It relies on thousands of factors aligning and moves in slow motion.

@@christianeriksson4733 well the technology moves exponentially. After the birth of wheel (2000 BC) it took 4000 years to build a car(Benz car) and after the birth of first airplane(1903) it took merely 70 years to launch an interstellar mission (Voyager) Going by this trend, I wouldn't be surprised if robots are capable of fully enacting the human tasks (right from cooking food to working in heavy industries) in next 20-30 years.Yeah, they will overtake our race in coming years.

+AquaCarb Maybe not cave diving accidents, but they could be used in body retrieval in cases of open water deaths or water too turbid to be safe for humans.

Oof

+Bocskai Csaba Why?

+ANTONIO ALEXANDER SUAREZ Because humans cannot dive there or they will possibly be harmed. Anywhere that is potentially dangerous to explore or go to should be explored by a robot in order to remove that possibility.

+Redstone Basketball There are many other applications for it. Another thing that popped into my mind is big depth waters (seas, oceans).

+Bocskai Csaba There is a machine caller ROV (Remotelly Operated Vehicle) that was invented in the 70s and upgraded with the latest technology since that time. It is widely used in the Oil&Gas industry. This humanoid project looks great. But the "problem" it seems to want to fix has already been solved since 1970. www.wikiwand.com/en/Remotely_operated_underwater_vehicle

My question was "why"because you pointed out only for contamined, toxic waters!though this ROV is far from being high's depth machine! many years working in the world of ROV and AUV ! a workclass can get to 4000mt and work on any subsea structure

The robot has a max of 2 kilometres, while the Titanic is nearly 4 kilometres down.

+Brian Foust Yeah except their bodies and mind were transported to the robot body and Human body was empty. Scary as hell

Totally agree, lol. But I think our homeboy needs arms, and that's why they did it like that. The human head is pretty goofy, and looks like it belongs in a horror movie- and there should only be one camera to see out of... but it's a cool concept.

Я же говорю игрушка, для реальных исследований есть специализированные аппараты, которые для этого предназначены а не утопленик в виде куклы

давно все погружаются и передают, вы бы просветились в этом вопросе, а кукла на видео глубже 10 метров не уплывет.

+UROVRussia Ну не на 10 метров там показывают что глубже. А фича куклы то что она с обратной отдачей. То есть пользователь чусвтвует нажатие куклы а значит ей можно даже хрупкие предметы предоставить вот тут новость почитайте www.popmech.ru/technologies/238412-robot-rusalka-s-chelovecheskim-litsom/ Во время своего первого погружения робот, управляемый с поверхности человеком, поднял со дна вазу XVII века. Человекоподобную форму ему придали специально для того, чтобы облегчить задачу оператора: когда у машины есть глаза и две руки, управление становится интуитивным. А вот ног у него нет - вместо них пламенный мотор.

Странно, мое подтверждение стерли ) Сказать можно что угодно, а вазу поднимет любой манипулятор.

+bZone agreed

+bZone I agree. I believe this thing having a human shaped head is not necessary. Its vision could be two go pro type cameras or something like that. Or why not 6 or 10 cameras putting together a huge panoramic image where the "head" would be. It seems it as clunky as a human in water and it makes as much scene as a fish out of water.

+MrGreenCheddar We might as well put 360° audio and video and drone map the whole ocean. "Google maps sea".