Giant Crab

You've heard of the unmanned combat air vehicle (UCAV), also known as a combat drone, we've also seen the quadrupedal military robot Cheetah and also the bipedal humanoid robot. It seems like every other day some sort of new technology makes us scratch our heads and say, "What's next?" 

KRISO Crabster

A team of researchers from the Korea Research Institute of Ships and Ocean Engineering, ledby Bong-Huan Jun, designed the 1,400-pound autonomous robot crab three years ago. They successfully put the Crabster’s white sea legs to the test for the first time last August to test its maximum underwater depth of 656 feet. From May 12 to June 10, it will be in the Yellow Sea off western Korea with a group of archaeologists to dig its “claws” into 12th-century shipwrecks.  

The Crabster’s creators claim that it’s the biggest ocean-crawling bot in the world. With six-six-foot-long jointed fiberglass “skin” coated aluminum legs jutting out from its bright red and yellow, egg-shaped glass and carbon fiber frame with a radar-based navigation system.

Attach is an animated video illustrating how it operates.

Reference:

"Giant Crab-Like Robot to Plumb the Ocean for Shipwrecks and Treasure." Entrepreneur. N.p., n.d. Web. 19 Apr. 2014. <http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/2331