Photo credit: Frederic Osada and Teddy Seguin/DRASSM
Stanford’s OceanOneK underwater humanoid robot is now being used to explore the deep sea. It consists of a humanoid top half and a slimmer back half, complete with eight multi-directional thrusters that enable it to carefully maneuver underwater. Its touch-based feedback system and stereoscopic vision generate amazingly realistic sensations that equal what a human would experience if they were down below.
Operators are able to peer through OceanOneK robot’s eyes and feel through its hands. OceanOneK is exploring the deep sea for two purposes: venture into places no one has gone before and to show that human touch, vision, as well as interactivity can be brought to these sites where people rarely operate. However, to make OceanOneK look like it’s not underwater in any recorded footage, you’ll need the See-Thru AI algorithm to remove the water.
- Who doesn't love robots? Introduce kids to the creative world of coding with the best educational STEM toys to foster their curiosities. Building,...
- Includes 847 LEGO pieces that kids can build and rebuild into 5 cool multifunctional models. The best and most popular robotics toys for 7-12 year old...
- Construct and code Vernie the Robot to dance, rock out on the Guitar4000, foster Frankie the Cat, interact with the Autobuilder, or explore a new...
OceanOne will be your avatar. The intent here is to have a human diving virtually, to put the human out of harm’s way. Having a machine that has human characteristics that can project the human diver’s embodiment at depth is going to be amazing,” said Oussama Khatib, professor of computer science at Stanford.
