At first glance, these ocean robots don’t look like much more than toy boats outfitted with solar panels. But the modest appearance of Liquid Robotics' Wave Glider ocean bots belies their ambition of traversing the Pacific Ocean and breaking the record for the longest distance ever traveled by an unmanned ocean vehicle. The bots aren’t making a frivolous expedition; they will collect and transmit huge amounts of data that could change our understanding of the ocean.
The Wave Glider robot, the first marine robot to use wave energy to propel itself forward (with wings attached 22 feet below the ocean’s surface), has been used by organizations like NOAA, BP, and the Scripps Institute of Oceanography to monitor everything from pollution to ocean salinity levels. The robot’s solar-powered sensors transmit information via satellite.
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