C-bot

January 31, 2024

The Goa-headquartered National Institute of Oceanography (NIO) has launched a coral monitoring autonomous underwater vehicle, Coral Reef Monitoring and Surveillance Robot, or C-bot.
It can reach depths of 200 metres.
It will help in maintaining surveillance over the coral reefs in the ocean.
C-bot will also help the Indian Navy perform bathymetry studies to help plot navigation channels.
The robot will also help in finding the active hydrothermal vents which are emitting a lot of elements into the ocean and active biology which is going on in many places, like in many extreme environments where the temperature is 400-500 degrees Celsius.
The vehicle can send real time data and photographs, which will help researchers in their studies.