On the right, Bathybot in its dock aboard the Pourquoi Pas? A 50 m blue cable connects the rover to the dock, which is in turn connected to the scientific junction box, and to the rest of the network via the orange cable. © Cyril Frésillon / MIO / CNRS Photo library On the left, BathyBot and BathyReef in the IFREMER Mediterranean Centre test basin.
On the right, Bathybot in its dock aboard the Pourquoi Pas? A 50 m blue cable connects the rover to the dock, which is in turn connected to the scientific junction box, and to the rest of the network via the orange cable. Cyril Frésillon / MIO / CNRS Photo library On the left, BathyBot and BathyReef in the IFREMER Mediterranean Centre test basin. Dorian Guillemain - BathyBot is the first deep-sea robot permanently installed in Europe, more than 2400 meters deep. It has just begun its mission in the Mediterranean Sea and has unveiled the first images of its environment. Accompanied by an artificial reef and a battery of instruments, BathyBot will study the biodiversity, bioluminescence and biogeochemical processes of the seabed. BathyBot has just woken up at the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea, 2400 meters below the surface. It is the first remotely operated mobile robot installed so deeply and also the first that will continuously document the colonization of an artificial reef in this environment, as part of a mission led by a CNRS team.
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