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The Boeing-made vessel will now undergoing trials that will inform future robo subs.

The single bluefin-21 sonar scanner has now covered about 95% of the area the investigators have called the most likely possible resting place for the boeing triple 7. when it is done we're just learning where the next focus position may be. remember, bluefins have been on more than a dozen missions. it has yet to find anything. we have yet to see anything, not one single image from the robot sub. and flight 370 took off with 390 people on board. several satellite connections and a handful of possible sonar pings, there were no signs of the airliner. the answers will come. this is for now the ...

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Narrowed to, say, 5,000 square miles. a robot sub may be brought in. cnn's randi kaye reports. it works like sonar to capture images from the floor. >> reporter: this robot submarine may hold the key to finding malaysia airlines flight 370. it's called the remus 6,000. it's 13 feet long, weighs almost a ton, and costs about $2.5 million. mike purcell is the principal engineer here. >> they can go up and down mountains that are up to 40 degrees in slope. they are very stable so you get really good data almost all the time. >> >> reporter: why would this robot find something that the u.s. navy a...

They failed. they were plugging in the wrong numbers. they weren't calculating it right. they spent two years looking in the wrong stretch. they recalculated using a new kind of math and found it within a week. >> besides being great at math, what do they need? i mean, what kind of equipment will they use? are we talking submarines, explorer vessels? >> in air france 447 they were able to use for the first time a new kind of high-tech underwater autonomous vehicle, basically a robot sub that could on its own navigate under water, go along a straight line and when they get to a mountain range -...