Exploring the Deep Ocean With Underwater Robots
Underwater robots give scientists and budding explorers a way to dive in.
by Jenna Schnuer
Feb 01, 2014
2 minutes
Entrepreneurs: Eric Stackpole, a former NASA intern who thought space exploration was going to be his career, and David Lang, who managed a San Francisco-based sailing school before joining a crowdfunding startup that later flopped. The two launched OpenROV, which makes open-source underwater robots.
Stackpole--whose first love is telerobotics ("any device you can use to see a faraway place without
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