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Robot dives miles to find shipwreck artifacts
Updated On: 01 May, 2026 08:43 AM IST | Paris | Agencies
The mission, led by the French Navy and underwater archaeologists, centers on a wreck known as Camarat 4.
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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.
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