Robots made the news repeatedly early this week, for silicon heroics that, for once, had nothing to do with the war on terror or unexploded IEDs. On Friday a remote-operated underwater vehicle was able to locate and recover the bodies of 16 of the 16 people died in the crash of a Sikorsky S-92 helicopter off the coast of Newfoundland. The transport helicopter was ferrying 16 workers to the StatoilHydro owned Hibernia oil platform when the helicopter went down, about 55 kilometers offshore, after a distress call that said the helicopter had lost oil pressure in the main gearbox. Robert Decker, a 30-year-old ice spotter on the North Atlantic rig, was the only one of 18 passengers and crew to survive. He was picked up by… View this post
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