Approximately 71% of our Earth is covered by salt-water oceans. It is a huge surprise to find out that we don't really know what's going on all the way down there. There are animals that have never been seen before. There could be plant life, or even answers to the way our planet was formed. The biggest problem with learning about the oceans (other than we want to spend more money learning about space) is that we don't have the technology to get someone or something down there.
This is all changing now. For the past five years a professor at the University of Washington has developed three "robo-fish". These robotic sea goers propel themselves with a fin as opposed to a motor. They are still in the early stages of production, but tests have been conducted and ended successfully. Here are those three robos all swimming synchronized in a pool.
Why is this so important? For one thing they will be able to track animals and pollution over a larger area of space while communicating with one another, just as the host of the video describes. One day with the evolution of these robots, they might be able to go to the deepest part of the ocean, calculated the different elements in the water round it including water pressure, depth, as well as temperature to help us understand more about what surrounds us completely.
Gogo robo-fish!
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