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Behind the tragedy of Titanthe tourist submarine that sought to explore the remains of the titanic and that it presented an implosion that ended the lives of its crew members, addressing the issue related to maritime investigation through these resources seems to lack security; however, there are several remotely directed instruments that allow the scientific community reach points of ocean that seem impossible.
In this sense, it developed Bellethe submarine controlled by means of intelligence artificial that pretends to be a robot fish, which allows you to have clear images of marine fauna without interfering with the environment, as occurs with scans human.
The machine navigates by itself thanks to the implementation of AI and guarantees the collection of DNA samples in environments that are difficult to access. Another factor that benefits it is its dimensions, being just under one meter in length and weighing 10 kilos out of the water.
The robot was invented by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH Zurich, and is capable of video documenting activity in zones deep; It has a 2-hour battery life and if it runs out, a resource is activated that allows you to access the surface.
This submarine It has a silicone fin with two cavities that allow the pumping of water in cycles, these are filled with water and by means of pumping they are emptied, which causes the fin to move forwards and backwards.
“Because you have a cavity on one side that creates an overpressure and a cavity on the other side that creates a vacuum. That then bends the flap in one direction,” Leon Guggenheim, a mechanical engineering student at ETH Zurich, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, told an international news agency.
Can you get lost in the ocean? Fortunately for the investigators, Belle has a GPS which allows it to send a signal to pinpoint its location, so if the battery runs out and it rises to the surface, scientists can go to its exact location.
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