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Oh a deep water robot that can manipulate rock sized objects on the seafloor, map environment, and return heavy things to the surface? I, government agent, woul
by jvanderbot 3y ago
Oh a deep water robot that can manipulate rock sized objects on the seafloor, map environment, and return heavy things to the surface? I, government agent, would like to buy 100.
- deadly-penguin 3y agoThose sorts of things are currently available and aren't much like a mining rig. Deep sea mining rigs don't really manipulate the nodules so much as hoover them up - there wouldn't be as much backlash if it was just picking nodules up. There's a picture of an early rig here: https://blogs.noc.ac.uk/jc241-smartex/prologue-smartex https://blogs.noc.ac.uk/jc241-smartex/prologue-smartex