1968 – Shinkai HU06 Submersible – (Japanese)

The Maritime Safety Agency operates the underwater research vehicle (URV) HU06 Shinkai, with the support vessel Otome Maru. Built by Kawasaki Heavy industries. The Skinkai was commissioned in 1968. Press Photo: The Yen400 million survey submarine is expected to be completed by the Science and Technology Agency by December 1968. The [yet] unmaned vessel, now …

1965 – PISCES Submersibles – (Canadian)

PISCES Production DSV         Completed     Depth (ft)     Crew PISCES I      1965         1,200         2 PISCES II     1968         2,600         3 PISCES III    1969         3,600         3 PISCES IV     1971       6,500         3 PISCES …

Early Fictional Underwater Robots and Underwater Manipulators

1907 – LE TRESOR DANS L'ABIME "LE TRESOR DANS L'ABIME" par Jean de LA HIRE –  Edition ORIGINALE datée de 1907 1907 – "Le Fulgur" « Le Fulgur » – « Le Fulgur » Publication en épisode dans la revue « Le Globe Trotter » du Jeudi 21 Mars 1907, N° 268 au Jeudi 15 …

1968 – Minsky-Bennett Arm – Marvin Minsky and Bill Bennett (American)

Marvin Minsky with his Arm. Photo by Dan McCoy in OMNI Magazine, June 1980. Also called the "Tentacle" Arm. Marvin Minsky   – Activating a dead crayfish claw Selected transcript "And that’s the anatomy of the mechanical arm I built that you see in the MIT Museum today" One of the first things that happened was …

1968 – Scripps Benthic Lab Tensor Arm – Victor C. Anderson (American)

FIGURE 95.—The Scripps tensor arm. Stress on the nylon filaments actuates the arm. (Courtesy of V. C. Anderson, Scripps Institution of Oceanography.) The "tensor arm," conceived by Victor Anderson, at the Marine Physical Laboratory (MPL) of the Scripps Institute of Oceanography, has 16 degrees of freedom (fig. 95). The entire arm is hydraulically actuated by …