Rupesh Samant
Panaji, Sept 13 India is exploring the possibility
of commercially marketing submarine robot.
Goa-based country's premier ocean research organisation,
National Institute of Oceanography, which had successfully
tried and tested its indigenous autonomous underwater vehicle,
has signed a technology commercialisation agreement with
Coimbatore-based VEA Automation and Robotics Private Limited,
an NIO scientist said.
The AUV 'Maya', developed by NIO scientists in 2006, can
be a substitute for divers to collect data from the bottom of
the ocean in dangerous situations, he said, adding that the
agreement is for five years.
The submarine can execute underwater exploration up to
200 meters depth. Programmed to take different kind of
expeditions, the vehicle has the capability to come back home,
in case of a hardware failure, the scientist said. - (Agencies)
Sep 13, 2009
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