OceanOnek
Demo by: Prof. Oussama Katib and Mark Cutkosky, Shameek Ganguly, Gerald Brantner, Elena Galbally Herrero, Wesley Guo, William Chong, Chinmay Devmalya, Adrian Piedra, Boyeon Kim
Provided by the Stanford Robotics Lab (PI: Oussama Khatib) in collaboration with SRC
OceanOnek
Ocean One, a bimanual underwater humanoid robot with haptic feedback allows human pilots an unprecedented ability to explore the depths of the oceans in high fidelity. In collaboration with DRASSM, Ocean One embarked on the Andre Malraux to explore the wreck of La Lune, 100 meters below the Mediterranean. The flagship of King Louis XIV had sunk here, 20 miles off the southern coast of France, in 1664, and no human had explored its ruins – or the countless treasures and artifacts the ship once carried – in the centuries since it sank.
On April 15, Ocean One recovered a grapefruit-size vase and returned it to the ship deck to the excitement of the archaeologists, engineers, and scientists who crowded around him. The expedition to La Lune was Ocean One's maiden voyage, and based on its astonishing success, it's hoped that the robot will one day take on highly-skilled underwater tasks too dangerous for human divers, as well as open up a whole new realm of ocean exploration.
