RPT-The robot is ready - so when will deep sea mining start?
April 22, 2014 at 02:58 AM EDT
NEWCASTLE, England/LONDON, April 18 (Reuters) - The world's first deep sea mining robot sits idle on a British factory floor, waiting to claw up high grade copper and gold from the seabed off Papua New Guinea (PNG) - when a wrangle over terms is solved.