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Chinese athletes – aided by cutting-edge technology in fluid dynamics – scooped nearly all the gold medals for diving during the Olympic Games in Tokyo and impressed the audience with their tiny splashes. Chinese researchers are now using similar technology to help bulky, heavy and somewhat clumsy industrial robots dive in a similar style. An increasing number of Chinese deep-sea mining robots have been dropped into the world’s ocean in recent years. As the test-run hours grew, scientists and engineers discovered issues that, if not resolved properly, could affect these machines’ long-term operation. A typical deep-sea mining robot is about...
