MIT Technology Review covers low-cost seafloor-hopping submersibles being used for deep-ocean mapping and mineral exploration. The piece is more about ocean robotics and resource surveying than AI, with only limited relevance to autonomy or onboard intelligence.
Smack dab between Australia and South America, the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) research vessel Rainier is currently on a mission to map more than 8,000 square nautical miles of the Pacific seafloor in search of critical mineral deposits. But it isn't doing it alone; for a month starting this week, it will...