Aquanaut, an autonomous submarine that transforms into a humanoid robot

[pesco]

Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/07/25/aquanaut-an-autonomous-submar.html

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[BakaNeko]

[Papasan]

Does it come in bathtub size? And perhaps around $50.00 US bucks?

[CanadianBeaver]

Neatness #1

[74hc595]

It reminds me of ROVs this game (highly recommended):

[GulliverFoyle]

I like how the first roboticist is honest that he wanted a good excuse to build a transformer.

New Robot

[CoffeeStar]

Came here to post that

[Yri]

Very cool, but they should make it big enough to fight kaiju. Just in case.

[euansmith]

I expected this to be a Waldo, so it was a nice surprise to find out that this is actually autonomous to some degree.

[Bozobub]

Totally legit AND cool. Nice.

Not only will this setup actually save a good bit of money by combining two types of robot — assuming it’s reliable, a big ask but doable — this will very definitely pan out for other extreme environments and/or low-g/vacuum work.

And it looks cool =).

[RexDart]

How’s progress on the VF-1 Valkyrie?

[Perrin_Rynning]

Kind of problematic, at the current limits of production and material science.

The capacity for a few hundred of these things to combine into Kaiju-fighting size, well… Now you’re talkin’!

[Perrin_Rynning]

Am I the only one whose inner-DJ won’t stop playing the trumpet-flare Transformers interstitial music while I peruse this article?

[MaiqTheLiar]

It’s cute and all but just wait until it exposes it’s manipulators.