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Deep Sea Tech 2025: AI Robots Reveal Ocean's Hidden World
In 2025, AI-powered autonomous underwater vehicles are revolutionizing deep-sea exploration, discovering thousands of new species annually in Earth's last frontier—the ocean depths covering 70% of our planet. While technologies like 6,000-lumen ROVs, underwater gliders, and submersibles capable of diving 8,000+ meters are revealing bioluminescent ecosystems and creatures previously unknown to science, they also enable destructive deep-sea mining that threatens to destroy habitats before we ev...