Fish, Subs, Stickmen and the USS Enterprise All Found at the Underwater Robot Convention 2007

If you needed any substantiation of the increasing popularity of robots , then look no further than Tatsumi International Pool in Tokyo , which recently played host to this year ’s underwater robot conventionalism . Four meter larger than last year ’s consequence in Kobe , the conventionality showed off over 80 H2O - friendly machines , let in a Hydra that could move at 46 centimeter per minute , a sub that could plunge to 1000 m , and a craft that looked remarkably like the USS Enterprise .

There were four category — Aqua - Bio Robot , Underwater Robot with Cables , Autonomous Underwater Robot and Radio - Controlled Submarine . And Tokyo ’s schoolkids got necessitate , competing to design the best water - based automaton . Check out 30 or so of the machines in the mahoosive gallery below .

2007 underwater robot pattern in Tokyo Tatsumi outside swimming place[Robot Watch ]

Last Of Us 7 Ellie Crash