This summer, the children of franceinfo junior are playing explorers. Tuesday, July 26, they dive to discover the seabed in the Mediterranean with the BathyBot robot.
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She was launched at the beginning of the year and is patiently awaiting her start off Toulon. With its fake Wall-E airs, the BathyBot robot is 2,500 meters under the Mediterranean Sea. Its mission: to explore the seabed to discover still unknown species, in particular bioluminescent ones. To talk about it in franceinfo junior: Séverine Martini, co-responsible for the project and researcher National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) at the Institute of Oceanology in Marseille.
“Can the robot discover abnormal things?”, Rose asks first on the show. Julia wonders about how BathyBot works and wants to know what energy is needed for it to work properly. “What is the maximum depth the robot can go? Can it withstand cold and extreme temperatures?”, also want to know the children.
Finally, Edene is worried about this little robot alone in the depths of the sea: “What happens if the device breaks down?” Finally, Alexis wants to know in what year the robot will come out of the water after its scientific mission.
On this page, re-listen in full to this franceinfo junior program on the BathyBot underwater robot on an expedition in the Mediterranean Sea.