00:03This little robot might not look like much, but as developers at Tethys Robotics in Switzerland say, it could save
00:09lives in more ways than one.
00:11The automated diver is being built from the ground up for search and rescue, not only allowing more time in
00:16the water to find anyone who might need saving, but it can also remain in the water even during otherwise
00:20unsafe conditions, meaning protecting the lives of rescue divers who would have been in the water in its place.
00:26But it's not just a remote controlled robot. They say it can navigate underwater environments, even ones where visibility is
00:32limited.
00:32Here's Jonas Woost, the company's CEO, to explain.
00:35If you come from area drone where you can apply standard visual feature detection based on cameras, we tried the
00:43same solution, basically, but on acoustic sensors, which is not directly transferable.
00:47And therefore, we have now built an AI power pipeline to have still a feature detector, but on acoustic sensors
00:55like a sonar, for example.
00:56They add that the robot also operates in areas you might be reluctant to send a human diver in the
01:00first place, like high current areas such as rivers or near wind farms.
01:04And all they have to do is put it in the water and the robot does its thing.
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