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Chinese researchers aim to make a small splash for robots sent to mine the bottom of the ocean

Published Sep 12 2021 at 12:00 PM GMT
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  • Chinese athletes – aided by cutting-edge technology in fluid dynamics – scooped nearly all the gold medals for diving during the Olympic Games in Tokyo and impressed the audience with their tiny splashes.
  • Chinese researchers are now using similar technology to help bulky, heavy and somewhat clumsy industrial robots dive in a similar style.
  • An increasing number of Chinese deep-sea mining robots have been dropped into the world’s ocean in recent years.
  • As the test-run hours grew, scientists and….




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  • Published Sep 12, 2021 12:00 PM GMT