After President Donald Trump loosened regulations for mining the ocean floor, companies are preparing to take part in what ...

Now the US Navy has a new vision: a robotic crawler. And with the growing threat of sabotage to underwater cables and ...

Impossible Metals, a deep-sea mining startup, submitted a formal request to the Department of the Interior to sell leases to ...

In the ocean sciences, robots provide views of the unexplored and can navigate environments not safely accessible to humans.

Looking through the eyes of an underwater robot, they saw a blanket of ash up ... may also preview the potential aftermath of deep-sea mining. Some mining methods kick plumes of sediment up ...

This new metamaterial responds to acoustic waves, letting researchers rotate and move objects with precision underwater.

As the blue economy — economic activities related to the ocean — expands, it’s clear that underwater robotics has a huge role to play. A revolution is sweeping the field of marine research ...

The US Navy wants robotic crawlers capable of descending to nearly 2,000 feet underwater to do this ... which is what makes mining so indiscriminate. Bottom mines are even sneakier.