World’s First Underwater Drone

[@ddegn]

Pretty cool tech. The positioning system and the hubless motors are really cool. Thanks for sharing the video.

[@chronicawareness9986]

they had underwater drones for years now... but this ones pretty legit

[@INTELMAXELL]

Wow that's cutting edge!

[@PhillyDroneLife]

How much

[@Roswellflighttestcrew1947]

They didn't say -- but I suspect it's one of those "if you have to ask..."-type scenarios. There is no price listed on the website -- only a link you can use to request a quote, which generally means they want to be on hand to counsel you when you fall over in shock after they reveal the price.

[@MansviGajjar]

Which material for the body of the robot?

[@BenRyherd]

That's pretty wild! I say this speaking as an engineer, it definitely looks like only engineers worked on this, no industrial designers.

[@Roswellflighttestcrew1947]

As I am neither an engineer nor an industrial designer, I'll take your word for it.

[@shannonnewman3091]

Thanks for the info !

[@Roswellflighttestcrew1947]

Always glad to share!

[@freedomearthmoon1]

When/if it malfunctions, how do you retrieve it from it's location? Will it float to the surface or do you need a trained diver and gear to go after it?

[@Roswellflighttestcrew1947]

That's a good question -- and one I should have thought to ask during the interview. So, obviously, I don't know the answer... I have to assume it would attempt to return to the surface near its mothership (like a drone returning to home). Given that it's capable of diving deeper than 9,000 feet, I have to assume sending a diver after it would not be an option in most cases... Diving gets very tricky below 130 feet.

[@advancednavigation]

Great question! Hydrus is designed to have several layers of redundancy built into it. Firstly, Hydrus is able to return to a retrieval location on the surface if certain conditions are met, for instance, its battery starts running low. Next, Hydrus is able to cope with reduced thruster performance and is able to return to the retrieval location on fewer than seven thrusters. Finally, in standard operating mode, Hydrus is trimmed to be slightly positively buoyant, meaning it will slowly float to the surface without any external power. For any further questions, please do not hesitate to contact us.

[@freedomearthmoon1]

@@advancednavigation Thanks

[@JH-jo9wt]

Price?

[@skyworx524]

Go The Aussies

[@Roswellflighttestcrew1947]

Crikey!

[@dodgygoose3054]

That's one of the most novel new Technology I've seen for a while, how cool. My mind jumped to the moon of Jupiter, named Europa, where they believe that its has an ocean under its ice; with a fleet of the above tech would be very handy in that environment.

[@Roswellflighttestcrew1947]

Of course, this is designed to submerge for a few hours then come back to a mothership to upload its data. I'm no expert, but a platform that would work on Europa might need to be a little more self sufficient -- not to mention there are no GPS signals on Europa. But, yeah, a swarm-type approach might be a better bet for planetary exploration than a single vehicle which could fail and "sink" the whole mission...

[@dodgygoose3054]

@@Roswellflighttestcrew1947 you probably need three separate sonar pulse beacons for under water triangleation connected to the mothership for the drone swarm operation, then with a relay mini satellite orbiting. It would be epic! For the beginning of underwater none earth exploration.

[@patlevv7382]

WOULD NEED TITANIUM etc etc to even have a CHANCE in T H A T kinda environmental hell😱🥶🤢☢️

[@dodgygoose3054]

@@patlevv7382 Well, not really. Once you've melted/drilled through the ice with your heavy duty mother craft, which would be your recharge station and info relay. The water underneath is liquid, temperatures above freezing so your aqua drones wouldn't need to be that robust just powerful enough or tethered to fight unseen water currents. Hopefully its not a turbulent river system down there, but slow moving oceans.

[@cambodianriverpig7613]

This is really cool

[@Roswellflighttestcrew1947]

I know, right?

[@erikazz9827]

My first thought was how useful this would be to treasure hunters searching for underwater shipwrecks. Also, relatively low cost inspecting for deep sea drilling rigs. I'm sure he's a good guy, but he looks like a Disney evil villain character.

[@gemmasmith4846]

Can confirm he looks like one, and acts like one too

[@arnoldn2017]

And an AUV like a Hugin is not an under water drone ?

[@lorenhansford9035]

I've been left out on a lot of your stuff for a whe ( I'm blaming the KZbin algorithm). Where is your partner?

[@DirtyDeeds65]

At $50K not very affordable...

[@jwtfpv8957]

Aussie

[@Roswellflighttestcrew1947]

...from down under!

[@patlevv7382]

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