Robot dives miles to find shipwreck artifacts

The remotely operated vehicle. PIC COURTESY/Thibaud MORITZ

A remotely operated robot has retrieved artifacts from a 16th-century shipwreck more than 1.5 miles (2.4 km) beneath the Mediterranean.

The system used camera-fed navigation and robotic pincers to maneuver across fragile debris fields, capture around 85,000 high-resolution images, and recover centuries-old objects without disturbing the surrounding site.

The mission, led by the French Navy and underwater archaeologists, centers on a wreck known as Camarat 4.

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