Underwater snake robot Eelume from Norway

    Norwegian University was clearly inspired by Terminator 4 by creating the robot snake Eelume. The robot is designed to work underwater, mainly the observation of oil and gas equipment. Up to its cleaning and regulation of valves and chokes. The development is sponsored by the oil and gas company Statoil and the Norwegian company Kongsberg Maritime.



    At the moment, the cable is used to interact with the robot, but in the future, using technologies such as unmanned vehicles from Google, such robots will be able to fully switch to autonomous navigation and produce research of underwater terrain without an external signal.

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    This development has great potential for underwater surveys and research of sunken ships. Let's hope that the companies creating such a robot will share their developments and put it into commercial sale at an affordable price, like those of quadcopters.

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