Forget Indiana Jones: Here Comes The Robot Archeologist

Nine years ago, in 2005,Juan A. Barceló of the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, published a paper called “A Science Fiction Tale? A robot called Archaeologist”. In it, he imagined the automatic archeologist, as a “robotic-ROV (Remotely Operated vehicle), able to move in the field, take samples, and build a model of the environment based on its interaction with it and the information is able to gather”. Less than a decade later this concept is much closer to become a reality than he could probably have thought.
Source: Technology