This is what its developers are calling the “Sentinel”, a habitat they’re developing for life under our planet’s oceans. And, oh yeah, the whole thing is 3D printed by robots.
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00:02 No, this isn't a future habitat humans might live in
00:06 on the moon or even Mars.
00:08 This is what its developers are calling the Sentinel,
00:11 a habitat they're developing for life
00:13 under our planet's oceans.
00:15 So what's the point of this undersea endeavor?
00:17 Here's the president of DEEP, Sean Wolpert to explain.
00:20 - What we're trying to do is allow individuals to go
00:22 and be at depths of up to 200 meters
00:25 for at least a month at a time.
00:27 And what we're trying to do is buy time,
00:29 raise productivity for science, for research
00:32 and other critical activities that occur on the seabed
00:34 to happen in a more fluid and safe way.
00:37 - He says that experts estimate some 40 to 50%
00:40 of Earth's seabed has never even been seen by human eyes.
00:43 That means we effectively know the surface of the moon
00:45 better than we know our own planet's ocean bottoms,
00:47 oceans which cover 71% of our planet.
00:50 What's even wilder is that the whole thing
00:52 is set to be 3D printed by robots.
00:55 - The Sentinel itself is 6.2 meters in diameter
00:59 and what we're going to be doing to enable
01:01 that large scale format is getting six robots
01:04 to work in synchronization
01:06 and we can print that within 90 days.
01:09 - The company says they're hoping this endeavor will change
01:12 the way humans understand the oceans.
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