OceanOne Robo

OceanOne Robo a bimanual underwater humanoid robot with haptic feedback allows human pilots an unprecedented ability to explore the depths of the oceans in high fidelity.

It has arms and hands of a sort, and a head with wide eyes to accommodate two cameras that give it stereo vision — the better to watch what its hands are doing. It is equipped with artificial intelligence so it can do things like avoid obstacles on its own. But a human does operate it from the surface. And, as Oussama Khatib, who designed OceanOne points out, “It has a friendly face.”

OceanOne does lack two human attributes — legs. Like a merman or mermaid, its aft end is devoted to propulsion, although it uses thrusters rather than a tail.

Article:http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/09/science/oceanone-a-mer-bot-dive-buddy-with-a-friendly-face.html?_r=0

Reference:http://cs.stanford.edu/groups/manips/ocean-one.html