Ocean & Marine · Recorded milestone
Autonomous underwater vehicles
Recorded year1995
Torpedo-shaped robots like REMUS survey the sea on their own.
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Led to
- Argo float networkRecorded · 2000enables
- Personal mini-submarineRecorded · 2006enables
- Deep-sea nodule miningRecorded · 2022enables
- First commercial deep-sea miningForecast · ~2028enables
- Open-ocean robotic aquacultureForecast · ~2030enables
- Hadal research stationsForecast · ~2036enables
- Seafloor farmsForecast · ~2036enables
- Complete seabed mapForecast · ~2040enables
- Deep-sea resort habitatsForecast · ~2052enables
- Underwater internetForecast · ~2055enables
Sources & evidence
Dataset updated 2026-10-18. This individual record has not been separately re-reviewed.