VLADIVOSTOK, RUSSIA – MAY 23, 2020: The autonomous unmanned deep-sea submersible Vityaz-D is seen aboard the Russian Navy Pacific Fleet’s Foty Krylov tug in the port of Vladivostok on Russia’s Pacific coast. Vityaz-D is the world’s first unmanned submersible to descend into the Mariana Trench in the Pacific Ocean. The submersible reached the bottom of the Mariana Trench on 8 May 2020, at 22.34 Moscow time. Designed by the St Petersburg-based design bureau TsKB Rubin, Vityaz-D can dive to a depth of up to 12km and overcome obstacles and find its way out of caves and trenches using artificial intelligence. Yuri Smityuk/TASS

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