Drone pilots can bomb and terrorize from thousand of miles away; with the same type of technology, Stanford University has developed a SCUBA diving robot.

Well, since the diving robot is unable to breathe, the term SCUBA may not apply here; I’m sure it can’t get bent either.

The robot has artificial intelligence built into it, however there is a “virtual” diver who controls and experiences what the robot is doing.

The robot has arms, hands, stereo vision and the virtual diver can even feel what the robot picks up.

The robot has been designed to go as deep as 2,000 meters (if you are an American, that is 6561.68 feet), which is about 6,000 feet deeper than any technical diver can go.

A real SCUBA diver fist bumps a robot diver.

Can you image 100 years from now, when people will go to a shop and be able to virtually control a diving robot anywhere in the world?

Video:

Stanford’s humanoid robot explores an abandoned shipwreck

I have run across an interesting project that was crowd funded, and will hopefully do some good to the nasty ocean water that accumulates in the harbors.

Having personally dove in Los Angeles Harbor while helping to train LA Harbor Police during my Dive Master training, I can personally say, harbor water is some of the most disgusting water around – floating oil, fuel, trash and shit.

Literally, shit – some asshole boat owners are so cheap, that they will save the $6 charge to have their brown water tank pumped, and just empty it into the ocean.

Currently, there are cleaning boats that patrol the harbor, but they are expensive to operate and are only in service during certain hours.

The Seabin is about the size of a garbage can.

The Seabin floats in the harbor and is run by a pump on the dock.

Apparently, it collects the water on the surface, along with the trash and oil, and expels the cleaner water out the other end.

They say that they have never had a fish caught in the device.

You can see the crap that it collects, but my question is, will that small can be enough to make a difference?

I’m glad they got their funding, so hopefully technology will make a difference and clean the water.

See the Seabin in action on YouTube: