If the race for oil and natural gas under the Arctic Ocean ever gets started,it may not be a human being who makes that first discovery.It could be a robot that will find the first traces of hydrocarbons at the top of the world,according to a panel at the recent IHS-Cera energy conference in Houston."Over the past 20 to 30 years,there have been vast advances in the technology needed to explore under the sea,"said Meg Tivey,senior scientist and director of the Deep Ocean Exploration Institute at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.Those advances have included manned sub-mersibles that can travel to great depths to robots.
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