The process planned for commercializing NASA's Robonaut:

1. Identifying an Investor / Fiancial Partner, and closing a mutually beneficial business agreement with them.
2. Executing the Space Act Agreement with NASA.
3. Hiring the Key Management Team.
4. Establishing a Testing and Manufacturing Facility in the vacinity of NASA JSC (possibly on Galveston Island).
5. Starting up the testing and manufacturing of Robonaut components (heads, arms, hands, etc.).
6. Working with NASA scientists to develop AquaRobonaut^SM, specifically:
   1. The current Robonaut suit is porous, and needs to be adjusted to handle salt water corrosion.
   2. Sealing the suit to protect against salt water corrosion will create heat effects, which need to be studied.
   3. Submersion in cold deep water is anticipated to provide a sufficient heat sink, and must be tested.
   4. Filling the suit with oil is anticipated to control heat and to minimize the impact of pressure at depth.
   5. Torque requirements for various subsea applications need to be modeled and handeled in the design.
7. Field tests of AquaRobonaut^SM:
   1. W3D plans to do field tests in conjunction with Dr. Bowen Loftin, Presdident of Texas A & M University at Galveston, using the University ship, and some of the student cadets.
   2. Results of the field tests need to be published and developed into marketing materials.
   3. These field tests will start a process of continual improvement, to test and optimize each component:
      1. Scale must be studied, as subsea bouyancy is expected to allow for larger sized AquaRobonaut^SM, which in turn allows for the pick up and movement of larger sized facilities on the sea floor than is possible for a man to do at the surface.
      2. Smaller scaled AquaRobonaut^SM will be useful for certain applications, like exploring the insides of a submerged shipwreck.
8. Marketing and selling AquaRobonaut^SM for subsea applications.
9. Provide a significant return to the investor(s) / financial partner(s) (Internal Rate of Return of 25% to 28%), and enhance Robonaut technology to improve NASA's ability for deployment to support various NASA missions.