The vehicle uses pre-programmed code and artificial intelligence to respond to certain objects in certain ways. It has procedural reasoning. And that's not even its best feature. What is really sexy about our vehicle is its acoustic camera. It's an imaging sonar that can take pictures with sound.
Data transfer is slow, though.
It has side-scan sonar that gives acoustic images of what's on the seabed. Once it has spotted a suspicious object, it will refer the identification to a vehicle with a video camera. Once the vehicle returns to dry land, its data is downloaded. One gigabyte takes about one hour. Bluefin hopes to improve on the model.