Articles from ‘elocal magazine’ in ‘Innovation’

Robot Dives 1.5 Miles, Maps French Shipwreck With 86,000 Images And Recovers Artifacts

elocal magazine • Innovation • 4 May 2026

A remotely operated robot has retrieved artifacts from a 16th-century shipwreck more than 1.5 miles beneath the Mediterranean, offering a glimpse into how precision deep-sea robotics is transforming underwater exploration. Guided from a support vessel above, the system used camera-fed navigation and robotic pincers to maneuver across fragile debris fields, capture high-resolution imagery, and recover centuries-old objects without disturbing the…

Solar-powered floating airports: The missing link for air taxis?

elocal magazine • Innovation • 1 Dec 2025

Air taxis might be the next big thing but they can't get very big if there's no place for them to land. AutoFlight Aviation Technology is developing a vertiport that's essentially a solar-powered barge that can go where it's needed – water permitting. VTOL air taxis based on a new generation of multi-rotor craft might fulfill the promise of the old helicopter passenger services that emerged in America and Britain in the 1940s and 50s, only to…

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