A team of explorers say they have revealed an underwater cave to be the world’s deepest, at 1,325 feet down, near the eastern Czech Republic town of Hranice. Polish explorer Krzysztof Starnawski ...

They're like Superman, but underwater: able to withstand 5,000 pounds of subsea pressure, lift up to a ton, take 3D video images and transfer hydraulic power to other equipment.

Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory recently tested prototypes of miniature, self-propelled robots designed to explore the hidden oceans of distant moons like Europa, Jupiter's icy moon.

Built by pioneering German automation company Festo, this cuttlefish-inspired robot may look weird, but it's capable of some pretty impressive feats. It's able to maneuver through the water by ...

Engineers have designed a 'squidbot' that is capable of propelling itself underwater by creating jets. The untethered robot sucks water into a chamber and ejects it for rapid locomotion.

The design of the new soft robot (left) was inspired by the deep-sea snailfish (illustrated, right), which is adapted to live in the very high-pressure environments of the deepest parts of the ocean.

A SHAPESHIFTING robot submarine has reached Earth’s deepest point – 36,000ft underwater – in search of deep-sea “aliens”. The tiny Chinese drone survived a mission to … ...

Underwater plants are likely to get tangled in spinning blades, but Sepios was filmed diving into a forest of seagrass and then effortlessly moving through it, even in stormy conditions.

It’s like having “an elephant stand on your thumb.” That’s how deep-sea physiologist and ecologist Mackenzie Gerringer describes the pressure squeezing down on the deepest known living ...

The main issues are the brutal pressure and temperatures that render substantial chunks of the seafloor entirely off-limits to human divers. ... an advantage over conventional underwater robots.

A SHAPESHIFTING robot submarine has reached Earth’s deepest point – 36,000ft underwater – in search of deep-sea “aliens”. The tiny Chinese drone survived a mission to … ...