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AquaRobonautSM Knowledge BackboneSM| Topic and Link: | Description: |
| AquaRobonautSM | Planned modification to Robonaut for subsea applications. |
| Arms | Shoulder, Elbow, Wrist, and Hand, allowing operator to pick up and move objects by telepresence. |
| Body | Backpack, Leg, Hip, Knee, Ankle, and connector. |
| Bowen Loftin at UH | Physics Professor and Director VETL. |
| Bowen Loftin, TAMU@ Galveston | Field testing of AquaRobonautSM is planned to occur in conjunction with Texas A&M University at Galveston and some of their students. |
| Commercializing Robonaut | NASA is very interested in seeing NASA technologies commercialized, especially if there is a feedback loop which improves NASA technologies. |
| Competition | Existing ROV technology and divers are the main competition to AquaRobonautSM. With the move to deeper and deeper water, there is a virtually insatiable demand for ROV's which can perform in these harsh environments. The leading provider of this type of ROV is Shilling, who recently sold 45% of their company to FMC Technologies for $116 million. |
| CRADA | Cooperative Research And Development Agreement |
| Deep Water oil & gas facilities | Oil companies are moving into deeper and deeper water. There are fields producing in 9,000 feet of water, and active exploration in 10,000 feet of water. |
| Disasters | Hurricanes, tribidity flows, fault movements, and other natural disasters create significant problems for oil companies in deep water. AquaRobonaut will be able to help repair damages from these natural disasters. |
| GM | General Motors has entered into an agreement with NASA to build an improved version of Robonaut for their robotic manufacturing. |
| Grasping | Allows the operator telepresence picking up of objects. |
| H. Roice Nelson, Jr. | Finder and President of Walden 3-D, Inc. and HyperMedia Corporation. |
| Helmet | Rack mount for cameras. |
| Holding | Allows the operator telepresence holding and movement of objects. |
| HyperMedia Corporation | A W3D incubated company, signed the first Space Act Agreement with NASA JSC. |
| Intellectual Property | Patents, Patents Pending, Preliminary Patents, Inventions, Non-Subject Inventions, Preexisting Non-Subject Inventions, Processes, Drawings, Prototypes, Copyrights, TradeMarks, ServiceMarks, and other documentation of Ownership or Rights. |
| Investor(s) | NASA has committed to build 2 new Robonauts, one for internal use and one for the commercial partner, given an investment of US$12 million over 2 1/2 years. In addition, the Investor(s) must fund establishment of a manufacturing and testing facility and hiring of people to market and sell the resulting AquaRobonautSM. |
| Investor Return | The goal of W3D is for the Investor(s) to exceed 200% return on their initial investment within 6 years. |
| Manufacturing Facility | A facility near NASA JSC where components for AquaRobonautSM can be manufactured and tested. |
| Marketing and Selling | There are identified potential customers who will be approached when everything is in place to sell AquaRobonautSM to. For instance, Roice Nelson was the initial founder of Landmark Graphics Corporation. Haliburton purchased Landmark for $560 million in 1996. In 2007, the Landmark division provided over $1 billion in income to Halliburton. |
| Mining Subsea | A major mining operation for massive seafloor sulfides (copper, zinc, lead, silver, and gold) offshore Papua New Guinea, which is scheduled to start operations in the fourth quarter of 2010. From 153 holes drilled to a maximum depth of 19 meters, 38% terminated in sulfides, and they estimate 2.17 million tons at 7.2% coper and 6.2 g/t gold (about 18 tons of gold). This information was derived from a presentation by Steve Scott, Department of Geology, University of Toronto given at the IGC in Oslow, 12 Aug 2008. It appears there is need for AquaRobonautSM technology, although deep sea mining has taken a significant hit in the recent economic downturn. |
| Moving | Allows the operator to move Robonaut in the remote harsh environment. |
| NASA | Although Robonaut technology and IP Rights are owned by NASA, and these will be used to build AquaRobonautSM or other subsea instantiations of Robonaut, NASA does not endourse, sponsor, support, nor authorize this project. This work is being undertaken solely at the risk of Walden 3-D, Inc. There is information about Robonaut at NASA's website (see http://www.nasa.gov/missions/science/robo_sensors.html. |
| NASA's Technology Transfer Division | The group at NASA JSC responsible for commercialization of NASA technology. |
| Neck | Two degrees of freedom, allowing operator to look around and up and down. |
| Nondisclosure Agreement | Agreement required by NAS before there can be a more detailed evaluation of Robonaut Technology. |
| Oil & Gas subsea facilities | See "Deep Water oil & gas facilities" and "Pipelines and other subsea oil & gas facilities." |
| Pipelines and other subsea oil & gas facilities | In water depts of 50 to 500 feet there are significant oil and gas facilities. Much of the maintenance and repair of these facilities is provided by divers at these depths. However, W3D anticipates there will be safety and economic benefits to using AquaRobonautSM to provide these services. |
| Reaching | Allows operator telepresence selection of objects. |
| Recreation and Entertainment Subsea | One potential W3D investment group has expressed interest in using AquaRobonuatSM in conjunction with the Recreation and Entertainment Markets. |
| Robert (Bob) T. Savely | NASA contact for Robonaut. |
| Robonaut handshake and signature | Photos from Roice Nelson's first demonstration of Robonaut technology. |
| Robonaut Space Act Agreement | The second step in commercializing Robonaut is to enter into a Space Act Agreement with NASA. |
| Roice Nelson | H. Roice Nelson, Jr., founder of HyperMedia Corporation and Walden 3-D, Inc. |
| Scale | Subsea bouyancy enables AquaRobonautSM to be scaled, as is appropriate for different applications. |
| Skeleton | Allows Robonaut to reach, grasp, hold, and move. |
| Space Act Agreement | Mechanism for NASA to jointly work with an outside company to develop and enhance NASA technolgies. |
| Stereo Vision | Two cameras feeding operator stereo images of telepresence view. |
| Transportation | Lower Body Concepts have been developed for space applications. W3D plans to replace these concepts with ROV technologies for subsea movement. |
| Treasure Hunting | The "mining" of the Titanic wreck is well documented. Improvements in side-scan radar and other remote imaging technologies implies Spanish Treasure Ships which sank in the early days of exploring the Americas will be discovered, and AquaRobonautSM becomes an ideal tool for mining these wrecks. |
| Vision | Allows operator visual telepresence. |
| Walden 3-D, Inc. (W3D) | Roice's consulting company and the vendor negotiating for a Space Act Agreement with NASA JSC. |
| Waldo | Robert Heinlein's name for human telepresence in a science fiction novel. |
| W3D Urban Planning | W3D was formed for "Designing Responsive Envirnments," specifically to prototype building cities around people instead of around automobiles. |
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