Comments on: Mine-Hunting Humans And Dolphins To Be Replaced by Robots http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews/2012/11/mine-hunting-humans-and-dolphins-to-be-replaced-by-robots/ Keeping You Current Tue, 21 May 2013 19:55:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4 By: Tony http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews/2012/11/mine-hunting-humans-and-dolphins-to-be-replaced-by-robots/comment-page-1/#comment-1722 Tony Fri, 09 Nov 2012 15:54:00 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews/?p=6958#comment-1722 Although the dolphins and sea lions are "babied" by their trainers, they still are cheaper than UUV. However, sometimes mammals have a hard time to adapt to a new environment, for instance drastic change of sea water properties (salt, temperature, etc). There are a host of reasons to employ UUV in mine countermeasures. If you are interested in UUV for mine hunting and other uses, see additional articles at unmannedmaritime.com Although the dolphins and sea lions are “babied” by their trainers, they still are cheaper than UUV. However, sometimes mammals have a hard time to adapt to a new environment, for instance drastic change of sea water properties (salt, temperature, etc).

There are a host of reasons to employ UUV in mine countermeasures.

If you are interested in UUV for mine hunting and other uses, see additional articles at unmannedmaritime.com

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