---
title: "Meet the Kraken, an intelligent underwater robot"
description: "The autonomous underwater vehicle (UAV) is more intelligent than drones and can perform assigned tasks under water like searching for debris of a flight crashed in the sea."
date: "2015-05-11"
modified: "2015-08-13"
authors:
  - name: "Alex Klokus"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/alex-klokus"
url: "https://futurism.com/meet-the-kraken-an-intelligent-underwater-robot"
categories:
  - "Robotics"
  - "Robots and Machines"
tags:
  - "robotics"
---

# Meet the Kraken, an intelligent underwater robot

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- At the Centre for Robotics, students have developed the Kraken 3.0 a prototype UAV, a successor to the Kraken 2.0, an earlier model they created. The Kraken 3.0 can go as deep as 10 metres in a pool of water, just like a submarine.
- Armed with strong sensors and cameras to detect its surroundings, the 1.3-metre-long under-water robot is a six-thruster model which can rotate itself in five directions.
- Once an UAV is under water it has to take its own decisions. Therefore it has a higher level of intelligence than drones. A powerful on-board computer is part of the machine.

### Author social links  
[LinkedIn](<https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexklokus>)