EU researchers are developing AI-guided robot fleets to take over the dangerous, dirty work of finding and removing marine litter from the sea floor. A ship with a crane floats in the Mediterranean ...

Most of what we know about the ocean just skims the surface, literally. We’ve gathered a large quantity of data on the oceans from satellites, but most of that is based on the top layer of water.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Smart Grapple is capable of lifting individual items of trash weighing up to 250 kilograms (550 pounds). - Andreas Schmitz/TUM ...

Anahita Laverack was set on becoming an aerospace engineer, but her career took a different turn after a realization at an autonomous robotics challenge inspired her to launch Oshen, a company that ...

With millions of tons of plastic covering the seafloor, and more added every year, plastic pollution in the oceans is a major problem. With this amount of waste, we are ruining Earth's oceans and ...

From the seaside village of Woods Hole on Cape Cod, where ferries depart daily bound for Martha’s Vineyard, an autonomous ocean glider recently embarked on a far more ambitious course: a first-ever ...