{"id":96483,"date":"2019-09-20T18:42:28","date_gmt":"2019-09-21T01:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/houston-mechatronics-unveils-underwater-transforming-robot-aquanaut"},"modified":"2019-09-20T18:42:28","modified_gmt":"2019-09-21T01:42:28","slug":"houston-mechatronics-unveils-underwater-transforming-robot-aquanaut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/houston-mechatronics-unveils-underwater-transforming-robot-aquanaut","title":{"rendered":"Houston Mechatronics unveils underwater transforming robot \u2018Aquanaut\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/houston-mechatronics-unveils-underwater-transforming-robot-aquanaut.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.houstonmechatronics.com\">Houston Mechatronics<\/a> (HMI) unveiled Aquanaut at the NASA Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory, one year after the announcement of the platform concept.<\/p>\n<p>Aquanaut is a revolutionary multi-mode transforming all-electric undersea vehicle. The vehicle is capable of efficient long-distance transit and data collection in \u2018AUV\u2019 (autonomous underwater vehicle) mode.<\/p>\n<p>After transforming into \u2018ROV\u2019 (remotely operated vehicle) mode the head of the vehicle pitches up, the hull separates, and two arms are activated so that Aquanaut may manipulate its environment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Houston Mechatronics (HMI) unveiled Aquanaut at the NASA Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory, one year after the announcement of the platform concept. Aquanaut is a revolutionary multi-mode transforming all-electric undersea vehicle. The vehicle is capable of efficient long-distance transit and data collection in \u2018AUV\u2019 (autonomous underwater vehicle) mode. After transforming into \u2018ROV\u2019 (remotely operated vehicle) mode the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96483\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}