Al-Anbat - Hussam Alajarmah
China has developed a remote-controlled underwater robot,
which can dive to a depth of 6,000 meters, according to the Shenyang Institute
of Automation, an affiliate of the Chinese Academy of Sciences — the robot's
developer.
The Wenhai-1, developed for the Qingdao Institute of Marine
Geology under the Chinese Geological Survey, is the country's first independent
deep-sea unmanned probe, with functions such as large-scale independent
detection flights and accurate remote-controlled sampling, the institute said on
its website.
The Institute added that, during the sea and application
testing, Wenhai-1 performed 17 diving missions, during which it achieved
high-precision detection data near the seabed and column samples of surface
sediment and sea floor organisms, while at the same time the exact measurement
of the gravitational field and the Earth's magnetic field was achieved.
The Wenhai-1 was designed to serve research in deep-sea
scientific research such as marine environment surveys, biodiversity surveys,
geophysical surveys of the seabed for specific purposes, detection of the harsh
deep-sea environment in situ and deep-sea mineral resource surveys.
