Did a Robot Find Amelia Earharts Plane?

Its not much more than a couple of piece of landing gear, but 75 years after Amelia Earharts Lockheed Electra airplane went missing, a pair of robots may have found its final resting place.

The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recover (more easily remembered as TIGHAR), announced last week that its robot search team: which consists of an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) from Bluefin robotics and a remote-control unit from Submersible Systems, Inc. known as the TRV 005, captured images of a debris filed that may be from the ill-fated plane.

The two robots had been searching the Western pacific in an area known as Nikumaroro, which is part of the Phoenix Islands. TI…
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