France shows off humanoid underwater exploration robot

French officials have unveiled a humanoid diving robot that they hope will give a big artificial hand to the practice of underwater archaeology. It is intended to help researchers explore underwater archaeological sites that are too deep to be explored by human divers. According to Stanford, the concept for Ocean One was born from the need to study coral reefs deep in the Red Sea, far below the comfortable range of human divers. No existing robotic submarine can dive with the skill and care of a human diver, so OceanOne was conceived and built from the ground up as "a successful marriage of robotics, artificial intelligence and haptic feedback systems."