Check out This 3D Printed Underwater Marine Research Habitat of the Future

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This is what its developers are calling the “Sentinel”, a habitat they’re developing for life under our planet’s oceans. And, oh yeah, the whole thing is 3D printed by robots.

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00:00 (soft music)

00:02 No, this isn't a future habitat humans might live in

00:06 on the moon or even Mars.

00:08 This is what its developers are calling the Sentinel,

00:11 a habitat they're developing for life

00:13 under our planet's oceans.

00:15 So what's the point of this undersea endeavor?

00:17 Here's the president of DEEP, Sean Wolpert to explain.

00:20 - What we're trying to do is allow individuals to go

00:22 and be at depths of up to 200 meters

00:25 for at least a month at a time.

00:27 And what we're trying to do is buy time,

00:29 raise productivity for science, for research

00:32 and other critical activities that occur on the seabed

00:34 to happen in a more fluid and safe way.

00:37 - He says that experts estimate some 40 to 50%

00:40 of Earth's seabed has never even been seen by human eyes.

00:43 That means we effectively know the surface of the moon

00:45 better than we know our own planet's ocean bottoms,

00:47 oceans which cover 71% of our planet.

00:50 What's even wilder is that the whole thing

00:52 is set to be 3D printed by robots.

00:55 - The Sentinel itself is 6.2 meters in diameter

00:59 and what we're going to be doing to enable

01:01 that large scale format is getting six robots

01:04 to work in synchronization

01:06 and we can print that within 90 days.

01:09 - The company says they're hoping this endeavor will change

01:12 the way humans understand the oceans.

01:15 (gentle music)

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