July 2015

DAN testing underwater drone that may revolutionize diving safety
DAN Europe announced it is testing CADDY, which stands for "Cognitive Autonomous Diving Buddy" and is an underwater drone and floating satellite designed to understand the body language of a scuba divers in distress. CADDY is essentially composed of two ‘robots' operating autonomously — one from the surface and another one from the vicinity of the diver. The latter will interpret a scuba-diver's behaviour and is intelligent enough to detect anomalies. Meanwhile, the surface robot navigates the underwater drone and can communicate with the command centre in case of emergency. [See DAN media release] -- Posted Wednesday, July 29, 2015 by chb