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fromInsideHook
1 day ago

It's Not Aliens: Scientists Reveal Origins of Underwater Orb

A mysterious round object found in the Gulf of Alaska is identified as part of a massive sea anemone, Relicanthus daphneae.
fromTheregister
2 days ago

DARPA seeks deep-sea drones for autonomous warfare push

The program will leverage advancements in materials, manufacturing, and next-generation structural and mechanical design technologies to dramatically reduce the size, cost, and development time of deep-ocean systems.
European startups
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 day ago

My husband and son dived to see the wreck of the Titanic, and never came back this is what happened at sea

Walking into Christine Dawood's kitchen, it's impossible not to be drawn to the model Titanic in the centre of the room. Sitting in its own glass-fronted cabinet, the Lego ship is almost 1.5 metres long, constructed of 9,090 of the iconic plastic bricks.
London
#drones
Agriculture
fromRealagriculture
4 days ago

Pairing virtual fence GPS collars with drones opens new doors for ranchers

Drones and virtual fencing are revolutionizing cattle management, offering cost-effective and efficient solutions for ranchers.
Agriculture
fromRealagriculture
4 days ago

Pairing virtual fence GPS collars with drones opens new doors for ranchers

Drones and virtual fencing are revolutionizing cattle management, offering cost-effective and efficient solutions for ranchers.
Gadgets
fromWIRED
4 days ago

Beatbot's Sora 30 Looks Fun, but It's All Business in the Pool

The Sora 30 is an effective pool cleaner with a 95% debris coverage rate, but struggles in sharp corners.
Russo-Ukrainian War
fromwww.businessinsider.com
4 days ago

Ukraine teamed up its sea and interceptor drones for the first time to down a Russian Shahed

Ukraine's Unmanned Systems Forces achieved a world-first interception of a Shahed drone using an interceptor launched from a sea drone.
fromTechRepublic
5 days ago

China Deploys Robot Dogs, Drones, and Humanoids to Run a 'Full-Space' Metro System

The full-space robot intelligent dispatching platform mainly operates in three areas: intelligent service within stations, vehicle inspection, and tunnel inspection.
Artificial intelligence
#deep-sea-exploration
fromFuturism
2 days ago
OMG science

Scientists Say They've Figured Out What That Golden Orb Found at the Bottom of the Pacific Ocean Actually Was

OMG science
fromFuturism
2 days ago

Scientists Say They've Figured Out What That Golden Orb Found at the Bottom of the Pacific Ocean Actually Was

Scientists identified a mysterious golden orb found underwater as a remnant of a giant anemone after extensive analysis.
OMG science
fromMail Online
3 days ago

Mystery of 'golden egg' discovered at the bottom of the sea is SOLVED

The 'golden egg' is a clump of dead cells from a giant deep-sea anemone, not an alien or new species.
Europe news
fromTheregister
1 week ago

Dutch navy frigate tracked by mailing it a Bluetooth tracker

Dutch navy's security breach occurred when journalists tracked a warship using a Bluetooth tracker sent in a postcard.
fromFuturism
1 week ago

Pentagon Disturbed as Its Fleet of Drones Is Left Bobbing in the Ocean When Elon Musk's Starlink Fails

The outage left millions of Starlink customers in the dark back in August of 2025, dealing a blow to the company's image as an always-on satellite internet provider.
Tech industry
fromresund Startups
6 days ago

Raven Tech's Autonomous Drone Catcher Takes Flight

Raven Tech's system combines detection, autonomous flight, and net-based capture to neutralize unauthorized drones. Once an intruder is detected, the system deploys a drone to intercept and safely transport the rogue drone to a designated location.
European startups
Pets
fromFuturism
2 weeks ago

Man Creates Tiny Submarine for His Parakeet to Experience Life Underwater

Parakeet Bebe explores underwater in a custom submarine, showcasing intelligence and social behavior.
US news
fromThe Washington Post
2 weeks ago

Parrot goes on underwater adventure in his custom-built submarine

Bebe the parakeet explores underwater in a homemade vessel, enjoying adventures with his owner, Steven Lawyer.
fromFuturism
1 week ago

Robot Dogs Patrolling Precious Crops as Food Crisis Deepens

Bayer is supplementing human security patrols around its 8,000 acre Hawaiian corn farm with robotic security dogs, supplied by the tech firm Asylon. The Asylon dogs are meant to guard the company's precious maize from vandals, wildfires, wild fauna, and other hazards around the clock.
Agriculture
Science
fromwww.scientificamerican.com
2 weeks ago

The world's deepest sensors will detect earthquakes around the world from far below Antarctica

Scientists installed the world's deepest seismometers, 8,000 feet under Antarctic ice, to record global earthquakes with unprecedented accuracy.
fromMail Online
2 weeks ago

Parrot goes viral for exploring the Bahamas in a custom SUBMARINE

Bebe, the white-winged parakeet, measures around six inches and has become an internet sensation after a video showed him exploring underwater in a custom-built submarine.
Pets
Science
fromFast Company
3 weeks ago

The Navy brought a retired laser weapon back for a new drone fight

The U.S. Navy has revived a high-energy laser weapon for military exercises, enhancing capabilities against asymmetric threats.
UK news
fromwww.independent.co.uk
4 weeks ago

Royal Navy fits ship with minehunting drones ahead of possible Hormuz deployment

The Independent provides critical journalism on key issues without paywalls, relying on donations to support its reporting efforts.
Roam Research
fromFast Company
3 weeks ago

How AI-powered echolocation is giving small drones night vision

An ultrasound-based perception system inspired by bat echolocation enables small aerial robots to navigate in low-visibility environments.
Silicon Valley
fromFast Company
1 month ago

The Navy's AI bet to fix its submarine bottleneck

The U.S. Navy is investing in AI and robotics to address submarine manufacturing bottlenecks with a new $2.4 billion facility in Alabama.
Science
fromFuturism
3 weeks ago

Chinese University Announces 30-Story "Artificial Island" for Marine Research Purposes

China is constructing the largest semi-submersible research platform, the Deep-Sea All-Weather Resident Floating Research Facility, to enhance marine research capabilities.
OMG science
fromwww.scientificamerican.com
2 weeks ago

NASA's Dragonfly will go where no nuclear-powered rotorcraft has gone before

NASA's Dragonfly mission will explore Titan, Saturn's largest moon, using a nuclear-powered octocopter to search for signs of extraterrestrial life.
NYC startup
fromHoodline
1 month ago

NYPD Rolls Out Nearly $1 Million Drone-Hunting SUV For City Streets

NYPD has introduced a high-tech SUV for drone operations, enhancing counterterrorism capabilities with rapid response features.
fromArs Technica
4 weeks ago

How new fishing tech can reduce bycatch of turtles and other creatures

"There are not very many conservation issues that I'm aware of where industry and conservationists and consumers and the fishermen and the resource users all want the same thing. Every stakeholder wants less bycatch."
Pets
Startup companies
fromTechCrunch
1 month ago

Arc expands into electric commercial and defense boats with $50M raise | TechCrunch

Arc Boat Company raised $50 million to expand commercial operations and sell electric propulsion systems to defense contractors, leveraging consumer boat success to prove technology reliability.
Gadgets
fromWIRED
1 month ago

Aiper's Scuba V3 Pool Robot Brings AI Vision Underwater

Aiper's new Scuba V3 pool cleaner uses AI vision to detect debris but has a short battery life and operational challenges.
NYC startup
fromTechCrunch
1 month ago

Gecko Robotics lands the largest U.S. Navy robotics deal yet | TechCrunch

Gecko Robotics secured a $54 million initial Navy contract to deploy inspection robots and sensors across 18 Pacific Fleet ships, creating digital twins to optimize maintenance and improve fleet readiness to 80% by 2027.
fromNature
1 month ago

Observing the tidal pulse of rivers from wide-swath satellite altimetry - Nature

Along coastlines, where tides are typically magnified, they profoundly affect navigation, commerce, coastal flooding, water properties and sediment transport. Tides impact the flooding of rivers and, thus, influence the extent of their floodplain, which has cascading effects on biogeochemical and ecological processes.
Environment
fromRealagriculture
1 month ago

TerraScout brings robot agronomic scouting to the farm

It can drive through the field and look at every square inch. We really honed our craft on model performance and detection with rocks, and now we've transitioned that into weeds. The robot uses a boom-mounted camera system to capture detailed imagery across the field. With eight cameras operating at 1 millimetre resolution, TerraScout can generate billions of data points per acre, allowing it to identify specific objects, including individual weeds.
Agriculture
European startups
fromTNW | Deep-Tech
1 month ago

Gecko Robotics lands $71M Navy deal

Gecko Robotics will create digital twins of 18 Pacific Fleet vessels using AI and robotics to address a Navy maintenance crisis costing $13-20 billion annually, with a $54 million initial contract award.
Science
fromFuturism
1 month ago

Thousands of Chinese Ships Form Strange Shape in Ocean

Thousands of Chinese fishing vessels have formed unusually organized geometric formations in the East China Sea, raising concerns about potential military coordination and naval drills.
Intellectual property law
fromPatently-O
1 month ago

Soak and Pounce: 1920's Style Submarine Patents

Patent applicants historically delayed filing divisional applications to allow competitors to independently develop inventions, then emerged with claims to capture those market investments through interference proceedings.
fromNature
2 months ago

What my cave stay taught me about sensors

To capture the biological impact of this extreme environment, I used a comprehensive suite of sensors and biomarker analyses. I wore a wireless electroencephalograph (EEG) system to monitor brain activity, sleep stages and neural signatures of stress and adaptation; the Oura Ring to continuously track sleep patterns, heart-rate variability and circadian-rhythm shifts; and the glucose monitor to follow metabolic responses in real time.
Wearables
fromBusiness Insider
2 months ago

I toured the USS Lionfish, a Balao-class submarine that rescued downed pilots in World War II. Take a look inside.

The World War II submarine USS Lionfish was part of America's "Silent Service." Despite comprising less than 2% of all US Navy vessels during World War II, submarines like the USS Lionfish sank 55% of Japanese vessels in battle. This once-fearsome vessel is now a 311-foot-long museum exhibit, allowing the public to learn about its top-secret wartime operations. Take a look inside the USS Lionfish.
History
Tech industry
fromTechCrunch
2 months ago

Exclusive: Apeiron Labs gets $29M to flood the oceans with autonomous underwater robots | TechCrunch

Apeiron Labs builds low-cost autonomous underwater vehicles that sample subsurface temperature, salinity, and acoustics, aiming to close ocean data gaps; raised $9.5M.
fromThe Cipher Brief
1 month ago

Cheap Drones, Expensive Consequences: The New Economics of War

For most of the twentieth century, airpower was one of the most costly components of military strength. Fighter jets, strategic bombers, and advanced missile systems necessitated massive financial investments, highly skilled personnel, and sophisticated logistical support networks. Only great military forces had the ability to sustain these capabilities.
World politics
Photography
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

Seals, shipwrecks and a screaming swallower: Underwater Photographer of the Year 2026 in pictures

An annual underwater photography competition attracts thousands of global entries showcasing subaquatic life's diversity and environmental challenges.
Science
fromNature
2 months ago

Deep-sea robots will search for source of mysterious 'dark oxygen'

Oxygen has been detected 4,000 metres deep in the Pacific, prompting funded investigations with specialized landers and lab experiments to determine its source.
Russo-Ukrainian War
fromBusiness Insider
1 month ago

The US Army wants to see if it can get robots to rescue wounded troops like they're doing in Ukraine

The US Army is testing ground robots to evacuate wounded soldiers in high-intensity combat, reducing risk to medical personnel and troops during dangerous battlefield movements.
Environment
fromwww.dw.com
2 months ago

Who is financing deep-sea mining?

Major financial institutions have invested at least $684 million in companies linked to deep-sea mining despite public pledges not to finance the activity.
fromTheregister
1 month ago

Royal Navy races to arm ships against drone threat

The RFI calls for a "rapidly procured and installable Counter UAS (unmanned aircraft system) capability" that is "suitable for maritime platforms to detect, track, identify, and defeat airborne threats." Project TALON will combine a mix of "effectors" both kinetic and non-kinetic to counter the threats posed by the proliferation of drones, and is intended to complement current complex missile-based systems.
London startup
World news
fromBusiness Insider
1 month ago

Exploding drone boats have entered the Iran fight. Oman says one hit a tanker in a fatal blow.

An unmanned drone boat attacked an oil tanker off Oman's coast, causing an explosion that killed one crew member and damaged the vessel.
Environment
fromABC7 San Francisco
2 months ago

Tracking fisherman to track fish: The new technological approach to better understand ocean life

Global Fishing Watch uses AIS transponder data and artificial intelligence to track fishing vessels worldwide, providing unprecedented visibility into global fishing fleet movements and activities.
European startups
fromTNW | Startups-Technology
1 month ago

Italy's Mirai Robotics raises $4.2M to build autonomous ships

Mirai Robotics secured €3.9 million in pre-seed funding to develop autonomous surface vessels and maritime AI software, positioning the ocean as the final major environment awaiting software governance.
World news
fromwww.aljazeera.com
2 months ago

US military says it shot down an Iranian drone in Arabian Sea

A US fighter shot down an Iranian Shahed-139 drone that aggressively approached USS Abraham Lincoln in the Arabian Sea to protect the carrier and crew.
Science
fromThe Local France
2 months ago

France launches its first ocean-bottom floats

France deployed two deep-diving Argo floats to measure ocean currents and global warming to 6,000-meter depths.
Environment
fromABC7 San Francisco
1 month ago

SF scientists build robotic storm samplers to track pollutants before they reach the Bay

Environmental scientists deploy robotic water samplers throughout San Francisco Bay watersheds to monitor stormwater pollution and contaminants in real time before they reach the Bay.
Science
fromwww.scientificamerican.com
2 months ago

Unsinkable metal discovery could build safer ships and harvest wave energy

Laser-etched superhydrophobic textures let damaged aluminum tubes trap air and remain buoyant, mimicking diving bell spiders' hair-based air-trapping mechanism.
fromSFGATE
1 month ago

Rare footage captures a 'glass' animal deep in Monterey Bay

We've documented sightings of glass squids to better understand the remarkable transformations they undergo from hatchlings to adults. This new observation, captured in ultra high-resolution 4K, allowed us to zoom in on a juvenile likely no bigger than a baby carrot and reveal more details than we have been able to see before.
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Science
fromdesignboom | architecture & design magazine
1 month ago

sponge filter inspired by sea urchin absorbs oil spills from oceans using microscopic spikes

RMIT engineers developed a dolphin-shaped robot with a sea urchin-inspired filter that separates and collects ocean oil spills with 95% purity using an eco-friendly coating process.
Science
fromThe Cipher Brief
2 months ago

Autonomy on the Battlefield

Autonomy enables commanders to delegate control to machines while retaining command, requiring a fundamental mindset shift and clear frameworks for authority and responsibility.
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