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First launched in 2015, the Wave Glider named Blackbeard has helped survey an artificial reef, and document fish and marine mammals off the North Carolina coast. Now, thanks to funding from the N.C. Division of Marine Fisheries’ (NCDMF) Coastal Recreational Fishing License Program, the device is tracking southern flounder.

Join us on the next episode of SeaState when we talk to Graham Hine about platforms, sensors and data acquisition. Graham is the Chief Executive Officer for Liquid Robotics, the manufacturer of the Wave Glider, an autonomous surface vehicle powered by wave and solar power.

With recent threats against oil and gas facilities and related infrastructure, the ability to provide constant surveillance and monitoring of sites has become more important than ever. Autonomous systems, such as the family of solutions developed by Boeing, bring advanced capabilities that help oil & gas companies to perform ‘dull, …Read more

The COVID-19 pandemic has made it especially challenging for marine scientists to make observations and carry out experiments at sea. Research cruises have been cut back or canceled because it is difficult to keep a safe distance between scientists and crew in the tight spaces on a research vessel. In …Read more

Today, NOAA launched a six-week scientific campaign from the island of Barbados in the Caribbean, using multiple human-piloted and autonomous vehicles, buoys, radar, and computer modeling to investigate how the ocean, atmosphere, and shallow clouds work together to create the weather and climate we live in.

The radio signals of GPS, so powerful for tracking crustal movements on land, can't penetrate the abyss. To gauge motions underwater, scientists rely on a daisy chain in which a ship tracks acoustic beacons on the sea floor—and the ship, in turn, fixes its position with GPS. Now, a team …Read more

During a 100-day nearly 7,000 km (3,800 nm) round trip survey on a line between Hawaii and Mexico within the 2018 winter breeding season, humpback whale calls were heard in mid-ocean basin, halfway between the known near-shore assemblies. “They’re not ‘supposed’ to be there,” says Dr. Jim Darling, Whale Trust …Read more

Chavez and his colleagues used a robotic ocean vessel known as a Wave Glider to measure carbon dioxide, the primary cause of climate change, from nearby urban and agricultural areas and calculate how much of it dissolves in Monterey Bay. Aquarium researchers had measured ambient concentrations in the air and …Read more

Northcott was able to track down the sources of this extra carbon dioxide using measurements made from a robotic surface vessel called a Wave Glider, which travels back and forth across Monterey Bay making measurements of carbon dioxide in the air and ocean for weeks at a time. “Because we …Read more

These Wave Gliders capture data transmitted from "aviation-style black-box beacons" buried in the ocean floor, enabling scientists to build better computer models to identify "where the Earth's tectonic plates are moving smoothly," and where they might trigger an earthquake.

Recent advances including surfboard-like aquatic robots called Wave Gliders, along with ultra-precise sonar beacons and GPS systems are now giving scientists the chance to view the ocean floor and better predict how—and where—the biggest earthquakes might occur.

From bots targeting coral-eating starfish to soft, fishlike machines monitoring the situation via a Super Nintendo controller, these are the robots saving our reefs.

Unlike unmanned air systems (UAS), in which the man in the loop is an essential component of mission execution, unmanned vehicles in the maritime environment tend toward autonomy. And because of this difference, the training to support these vehicles is technical and largely focused on managing the vehicle in pre- …Read more

Along the coast of the Narragansett Bay in Rhode Island, members of industry, academia and the Navy recently experimented with unmanned underwater vehicles that officials believe could one day prove key in future naval skirmishes.

On Saturday 20th October, the Royal Research Ship (RRS) James Cook departed on an expedition during which a new automated system of collecting climate data will be trialed. If successful, the new technology could help improve long-range European weather forecasts in the future. ...A new unit, developed at the NOC’s …Read more

Residents of Hawaii’s Big Island are holding their breath, and it’s not just the humans. After months of hot lava spewing from the Kilauea volcano since an eruption began on May 3, 2018, the flow has slowed and the National Park is reopened. The hot volcanic rock traveling down the …Read more

KAWAIHAE — In the heart of the Kawaihae Harbor is a homegrown company called Liquid Robotics. The internationally known entity invented and manufactures the Wave Glider — the world’s first wave- and solar-powered, autonomous, unmanned, marine robot. From humble beginnings, including an early prototype made from a surfboard purchased at …Read more

The World Ocean Initiative team interviewed Roger Hine, Chief Technology Officer and co-founder of Liquid Robotics, and winner of the first World Ocean Summit Innovation Challenge. During their most recent mission, Liquid Robotics deployed two Wave Gliders to survey the ocean...

Slow-moving but highly useful at sea and strong enough to ride out a hurricane, Wave Gliders are multiplying off the Space Coast, proving especially useful monitoring at-sea missile launch tests and providing platforms for a variety of scientific research. A recent notice to mariners was sent out for a Wave …Read more

The Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (Cefas) has collaborated with marine robotics specialist Liquid Robotics to successfully trial an innovative technique for counting schools of fish. The trial formed part of the UK NERC/Defra funded AlterEco project which seeks to develop an innovative framework for assessing marine ecosystem …Read more

Muscat: The Research Council (TRC) represented by the Institute of Advanced Technology Integration (IATI), in cooperation with Helmholtz Association of German Research Centers, conducted the first test in the Sultanate’s waters for the Wave Glider, which is a water probe designed to be used for detecting and collecting samples of …Read more

A state-of-the-art technique for mapping and counting schools of fish has been tested on an autonomous marine platform in the North Sea, offering a new method for collecting data on fish stocks. The U.K.’s Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (Cefas) and U.S. based Liquid Robotics, A Boeing Company, …Read more

A state-of-the-art technique for mapping and counting schools of fish has been tested on an autonomous marine platform in the North Sea, offering a new method for collecting data on fish stocks. The UK's Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (Cefas) and Liquid Robotics, A Boeing Company, USA, have …Read more

Scientists have started analyzing live data collected by two ocean robots on the impacts of lava flowing into the water off lower Puna. The original plan was to have the Wave Gliders gather measurements close to the ocean entry, but once the unmanned vehicles arrived, they had to change course.

With the ongoing eruption and subsequent lava ocean entry in lower Puna, Steven Colbert, an associate professor in the Marine Science Department at the University of Hawaii at Hilo, said he’s been collaborating with Liquid Robotics in Kawaihae Harbor on the use of their Wave Glider technology. The unmanned device …Read more

... One of the biggest impacts to the surrounding underwater environment is water temperature. Marine scientist, Steven Colbert says results collected by the Liquid Robotics WaveGlider indicate temperatures up to 120 degrees about 100 yards offshore with temperatures of 100 degrees or more extending up to 2 miles from the …Read more

Liquid Robotics deployed two Wave Gliders, autonomous ocean robots, to capture live ocean data close to where lava is flowing into the ocean from Kilauea Volcano. By using this unmanned technology, scientists have the rare opportunity to study the effects of lava entering the ocean, the plume it creates and …Read more

Silicon Valley robots are helping researchers monitor the effects of Hawaii’s Kilauea Volcano by going into the danger zone, where mankind cannot. Wave Gliders are getting in the water, within 300 meters of the lava plume, where the temperatures are above 120 degrees, a kind of research that can save …Read more

Working with researchers from the University of Hawaii at Hilo, MIT, and the USGS-HVO, the Wave Gliders host a wide assortment of sophisticated sensors to measure: water temperatures, oxygen levels, PH levels, salinity, turbidity, conductivity and underwater acoustics.

Scientists are seeing wave top data from the Kilauea lava flow that weren't taken by a manned boat. Instead, Sunnyvale based Liquid Robotics is testing the waters by remote control, with two of their oceangoing Wave Glider drones.

Our Image of the month: June 2018 shows a Wave Glider being launched off the coast of the island of São Vicente (Cape Verde). Wave Gliders are sensor platforms that, for several weeks or even months, can autonomously perform scientific missions in the open ocean, propelled by wave energy. Depending …Read more

Top oceanographers have selected Wave Gliders, the most experienced, long duration ocean robots, as their sensor platform to conduct advanced scientific research in the most inhospitable and remote regions of the Arctic and Southern Oceans.

Off the east coast of South Africa, robotic ocean gliders deployed in the Agulhas Current capture new data that help us better understand how energy dissipates in the ocean.

Mary Lee reports on "Wave Glider" robot that can stay at sea collecting ocean data for over a year.

It comes as no surprise that the Navy measures the characteristics of the world’s oceans, but it may surprise that the Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command (NMETOC) is the service’s largest user of unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs), deploying them to collect data not only for research but also to directly …Read more

A state-of-the-art technique for mapping and counting schools of fish has been tested on an autonomous marine platform in the North Sea, offering a new method for collecting data on fish stocks. The UK's Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (Cefas) and Liquid Robotics, A Boeing Company, USA, have …Read more

In this interview, Gary Gysin discusses efforts to integrate Liquid Robotics own technologies with others from elsewhere within the Boeing ecosystem and the US Navy to create a transparent oceans architecture, the advantages of the Wave Glider unmanned surface vehicle's new copper-composite coating, how we should think about other countries' …Read more

Here’s one instance in the unmanned system maritime domain, of an original equipment manufacturer and its military customer taking their in-service platforms to heretofore, higher standards of operational performance. Liquid Robotics, a Boeing company, is boldly advancing the technology baseline for its Wave Glider platform.

With the proliferation of the internet of things on land, the floodgates are opening for the “digital ocean” — a concept at maritime robotics company Liquid Robotics that will soon feed data ashore on the maritime environment.

Over at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, scientists are working on a more mobile platform for monitoring plankton: the Wave Glider. Think of it like a very expensive surfboard, loaded with solar-powered instruments.

“... Creating an effective understanding of the maritime environment requires persistent long endurance systems with sensors and open mission systems integrated architectures that operate from below the sea right into space. Imagine the possibilities afforded by hundreds of self-powered underwater drones like the Wave Glider developed by Boeing-owned firm Liquid …Read more

The Japan Coast Guard (JCG) has expanded its unmanned ocean observation fleet of Wave Gliders to the 9th Regional District, headquartered in Niigata, Japan. This growth is part of JCG’s multi-year, ocean monitoring program to provide situational awareness of ocean currents, wave activity, and weather along Japan’s coastlines.

Researchers are hoping to discover new travel routes of the Pacific humpback by utilizing a robot that monitors their unique means of long-distance communication. The robot left the Big Island of Hawaii on January 15th, slowly sailing toward Mexico and on the prowl for humpback whales rarely seen on the …Read more

A Wave Glider named Europa is slowly crossing the Pacific, listening for whale songs. If the robot finds evidence that humpbacks congregate in the remote open ocean, it could help scientists protect endangered populations of the marine mammal.

Gary Gysin is the president and CEO of Liquid Robotics, a Boeing company. He is an innovative executive with a reputation for transforming start-ups into global businesses. His company is fundamentally changing the way the world collects and monitors ocean data through the innovative use of ocean robots. Hydro International …Read more

DARPA, the U.S. military’s R&D arm, is seeking proposals to deploy as many as 50,000 low-cost sensors across the ocean to gather data on marine conditions, but scientists say that the plan poses a significant technological challenge.

It’s been a fast-paced and busy year for Liquid Robotics, a Boeing company, according to Don Jagoe, Senior Director for Business Development in the Sales for US National Security division at Liquid Robotics. While it has been just more than one year (December 2016) since Liquid Robotics became part of …Read more

Taking a look back on the year that was 2017, our OEdigital.com website's most popular stories pretty much tell everything you need to know. While the industry is still adjusting to the downturn, the bright spots are few, but significant. There were record setting lifts, major discoveries, and major fields …Read more

Space was once referred to as the “final frontier.” But there remains a frontier on Earth: The oceans. There is still much to explore in the depths of the world’s oceans, and resources that may change the world. Energy, valuable metals, and food are just some of the resources that …Read more

A team from Newcastle University has arrived in Antarctica this week as part of a major new research project to measure the rate of uptake of heat and CO2 in the Southern Ocean. Dr. Miguel Morales Maqueda, Alicia Mountford and Liam Rogerson from Newcastle University have joined the ORCHESTRA research …Read more

On a dimly lit loading dock at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) in Mexico City, geophysicist Víctor Cruz-Atienza heaves the lid off a wooden crate to reveal a device that could help solve a geophysical mystery. Peeking through the packing material is the yellow body of a Wave …Read more

An autonomous floating robot packed with sensors has been deployed to monitor the waters surrounding the Great Barrier Reef. The vehicle – called the Wave Glider – recently completed a seven-day, 200 nautical mile trial voyage of the central reef, to collect data for the Australian Institute of Marine Science …Read more

Sean Halpin, of Liquid Robotics, shares the benefits awaiting the offshore oil and gas industry if it could only speed up implementation of digital oilfield technologies. The Digital Oilfield is the transformation of sensors and structures communicating in real time, autonomously, and aided (and even potentially controlled) by artificial intelligence. …Read more

The Southern Ocean is key to Earth's climate, but the same gusting winds, big waves and strong currents that are important to ocean physics make it perilous for oceanographers. Instead their job is increasingly being given to ocean drones, the autonomous floating vehicles that collect data from the world's oceans. …Read more

The unmanned Wave Glider SV3, named the Gulf Explorer, is adding its services to the post-Hurricane Harvey effort. The machine will collect real-time data of the incredible rain accumulations that are pouring into the Gulf of Mexico. The information will help determine how the rainfall will affect ecosystems, coral reefs, …Read more

While you read this, an unmanned Wave Glider surface vehicle is riding swells alone in the Gulf of Mexico, collecting critically needed post-Hurricane Harvey water quality data. Thanks to a Texas A&M University partnership with Liquid Robotics, the Wave Glider’s manufacturer, researchers will use the glider’s real-time data to examine …Read more

The Boeing Company’s Liquid Robotics (Stand S9-174), a leader in long-duration unmanned surface vehicles, has announced the next generation of its Wave Glider, with advancements to the platform’s operational range, and performance for missions in high sea states (6 and greater) and high latitudes, including the Arctic (latitude of 78.76N0) …Read more

The nascent Digital Ocean movement aims to provide real-time information on climate change, fisheries and other marine conditions by using mobile technology to link autonomous vehicles, ships and sensors to shore.

Liquid Robotics, a US-headquartered specialist in long duration, unmanned surface vehicles, has announced the next generation of its Wave Glider with advancements to the platform’s operational range, and performance for missions in high sea states and high latitudes.

We’re slowly but surely moving towards an age where drones regularly fly overhead delivering parcels, inspecting buildings, and searching for criminals. But a similar wave of autonomous and remote-controlled drones are changing the tide of ocean-going operations.

The world is becoming automated. But it’s not just cars and factories. The mining industry, for example, has long been a proponent of taking people out of the equation with remotely-controlled or entirely automated vehicles now doing most of the actual digging and mining. Now the ocean is set to …Read more

Drones, helicopters, fighter jets, and spaceships will soon each have their own separate divisions within Boeing.

... scientists are now testing unmanned ocean vehicles, equipped with a range of sensors, as a more cost-effective and efficient approach to collect large sets of data over vast areas of the ocean. The unmanned ocean vehicles collect data from the ocean surface and deeper in the water-column. They are …Read more

Liquid Robotics’ Wave Gliders, the world’s most experienced ocean surface robot, is honored to participate in the historic homecoming and celebration for the Polynesian Voyaging Society’s Hōkūleʻa canoe after its three year, 40,000 nautical miles Mālama Honua voyage. On the final miles of this historic journey, Wave Gliders will provide …Read more

Sensors that collect vast amounts of information are increasingly proliferating throughout the ocean. One company is working on a way to consolidate that data. “We have started evangelizing a concept called the ‘Digital Ocean,’ which is, how do you sensor network the ocean?” said Gary Gysin, president and CEO of …Read more

Boeing’s autonomous systems cover applications in both the airborne and maritime domains. In the latter, the company’s offerings include the ECHO RANGER, SEEKER, ECO VOYAGER and WAVE GLIDER (SHARC), the networked combination of which provides communications and C2 from the subsurface to surface environments, providing operators and local commanders with …Read more

Ahead of the AUVSI Xponential 2017 event in Dallas, Texas, officials from Liquid Robotics detail the capabilities that its Wave Glider provides and the markets the platform can work in.

From a sunken ship on Penobscot Bay to working with the world’s top oil and gas companies, Sean Halpin has always had a love of the ocean. Learn about his start and his perspectives on the role autonomous systems play for the future of offshore operations.

At many coasts all over the Earth, freshwater is discharged into salty seawater through sources at the seafloor which are recharged by on-land groundwater. If groundwater deposits located near the coast are used excessively, this process bears a danger of being reversed, causing seawater to enter into the water-bearing layers …Read more

This is an ecosystem-type initiative, so to speak, with stakeholders in industry, government and other entities bringing to bear their technologies and other resources to establish a Digital Ocean and complete the many building blocks for this construct – common interfaces and related challenges...

The Wave Glider unmanned surface vehicle is now operational with the U.S. Navy in an anti-submarine warfare (ASW) surveillance role, a Liquid Robotics official said. In an April 3 interview with Seapower Gary Gysin, president and chief executive of Liquid Robotics, a Boeing company, said the company’s Wave Glider, also …Read more

Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego is collaborating with the Icelandic Coast Guard (ICG) on a groundbreaking study of the extreme ocean surface conditions that characterize the waters off Iceland’s coast. New state-of-the-art instruments will measure waves, currents, atmospheric pressure and sea surface temperature. Already, …Read more

The Wave Glider missions run by the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Germany, can be followed live on the internet. The internet portal GEOMAR Navigator has been set up to provide Wave Glider's courses and velocities and the latest data they have collected from the ocean. The portal …Read more

A group of European and American scientists have embarked on an oceanographic mission aboard the German research vessel RV Maria S. Merian to study the physical and bio-geo-chemical characterization of the Senghor Sea Mount ecosystem located to the north of the Cape Verde Archipelago.

... #5. We need to close the information gap about the ocean. Here’s how to start. By Gary Gysin in Scientific American

We need an information superhighway of the seas ... In reality, instant access to data is only true for less than one quarter of our planet. For the remaining three quarters, the ocean, there is a huge information infrastructure gap, with limited to no real time access to data...

Les autorités japonaises vont utiliser à partir de mai un appareil autonome capable de repérer un tremblement de terre sous-marin et de prévenir la population en temps réel. Les débuts du robot détecteur de tsunami n’ont pas été de tout repos – on l’a perdu pendant plusieurs semaines avant qu’il …Read more

A drone will circle the world’s newest volcanic island, near Japan, to warn of devastating waves. The newest and most dangerous island in the world is about to get a robotic sentinel. Since bursting to life 1,000 kilometers south of Tokyo in 2013, a massive marine volcano called Nishinoshima has …Read more

Wave-powered drones are being used to provide live tracking of the world’s largest fish, the whale shark, for the first time. Researchers at the Whale Shark and Oceanic Research Center (WSORC) on the island of Utila, Honduras, have just finished a year-long project using autonomous “Wave Glider” drones to patrol …Read more

Boeing is developing a kit to air-drop its SHARC (Sensor-Hosting Remote Autonomous Craft) wave glider by parachute into a deployment zone for surveillance. The SHARC — developed by Liquid Robotics, which Boeing recently acquired — is a wave-gliding unmanned surface vehicle. It consists of a surface float that houses the …Read more

Boeing Co. will acquire floating-drone maker Liquid Robotics, the aerospace giant said Tuesday. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Based in Sunnyvale, Liquid Robotics developed the Wave Glider, a surfboard-shaped drone that floats on the ocean surface and collects data, propelling itself for up to a year using wave …Read more

The Boeing Co. says it has agreed to acquire Liquid Robotics, its teammate in a years-long effort to create surfboard-sized robots that can use wave power to roam the seas. The acquisition is expected to help Boeing create military communication networks that can transmit information autonomously from the sea to …Read more

As much of our country finds itself captivated by the prospects of manned missions to Mars, our inner-space – the oceans – have been sadly given ‘second fiddle’ status. The new 115th Congress in January should begin to put these two parts of our future in a more common sense …Read more

As the Royal Navy’s big exercise for unmanned systems Unmanned Warrior closes, TIM ROBINSON reviews what might be the lessons for future autonomous operations from this technology demonstration. Billed as the biggest ever military exercise involving unmanned systems, the UK’s Unmanned Warrior 16 took place in two weeks in October …Read more

Boeing is planning to demonstrate the autonomous capabilities of a number of its unmanned systems during maritime surveillance operations. Systems under consideration may include the RQ-21A Blackjack or ScanEagle unmanned air vehicles made by its Insitu subsidiary, the Camcopter rotary UAV that it markets in the UK and USA on …Read more

Boeing Liquid Robotics SHARC or Sensor Hosting Autonomous Remote Craft is a solar and ocean powered wave glider, it is being demonstrated with over 50 other robotic craft off the Scottish coast in Unmanned Warrior 2016, the world’s first large-scale maritime exercise of its kind.

Gosling explained why his latest project is getting a data centre rack to function in the middle of the ocean during a hurricane. "My current gig is about building systems and solving problems in an extreme fashion," said Gosling at the IPExpo conference in London recently. Earlier in his talk …Read more

Boeing is participating in the Royal Navy’s Unmanned Warrior event – the largest demonstration of its kind – with the ScanEagle unmanned aerial system (UAS) with subsidiary Insitu; the CAMCOPTER S-100 UAS with partner Schiebel; and the Sensor Hosting Autonomous Remote Craft (SHARC) unmanned surface vehicle (USV) with partner Liquid …Read more

California-based Liquid Robotics has partnered with the Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (CEFAS), UK, to deploy, test and recover a remotely piloted Wave Glider, which allows scientists to measure water characteristics and selectively collect samples in near real time.

The UK's Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science, and American company Liquid Robotics, successfully deployed, tested and recovered a remotely piloted Wave Glider called “Lyra” in the southern North Sea about 60km off Lincolnshire’s coast. The device spent 48 days at sea before being recovered 20 miles off Lowestoft. …Read more

FlightRadar24, the live flight tracker service that news outlets rely upon when an aircraft goes off radar, has begun experimenting with some rather unconventional methods to receive existing ADS-B signals. With a network of over 10,000 terrestrial ADS-B receivers, Flightradar24 has gone to sea and space to expand its coverage …Read more

Northrop Grumman has demonstrated a new autonomy framework that enables multiple unrelated unmanned systems to communicate and collaborate on a mission. During the three-day demonstration held in August, Northrop Grumman's autonomy framework connected a Kongsberg REMUS 600 autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV), two Liquid Robotics' Wave Glider unmanned surface vehicles (USV), …Read more

Northrop Grumman Corp. demonstrated new cross domain approaches for autonomous undersea, surface and air vehicles to advance the Anti-Submarine Warfare mission during this year’s Annual Naval Technology Exercise (ANTX) at Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC) in Newport, the company said in an Aug. 25 release.

A team of scientists and engineers from the National Oceanography Centre (NOC) and Newcastle University (NU) have developed a novel technique to measure sea surface height directly using global navigation satellite system (GNSS) technology in combination with a marine surface autonomous vehicle (SAV) called a GNSS-Wave Glider.

Underwater drones face different challenges than their aerial counterparts. For one, communication is more difficult, making it hard for an autonomous vehicle to report information it might pick up underwater. That hurdle is being worked on by Liquid Robotics, a Sunnyvale firm that makes the Wave Glider. The unmanned vehicle …Read more

Demonstrating the first, near real-time observations of an earthquake from an autonomous offshore observatory, scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography have proven it is possible to overcome the technology challenges to real-time, seafloor to space communications of sensor data.

The vision for the Blue Economy is to develop new businesses, new industries and unlock new scientific discoveries – all without harming the ocean or its ecosystems. Liquid Robotics has addressed the challenge by providing a sustainable, unmanned ocean platform to collect and communicate data across the world’s ocean, from …Read more

A sea drone will be sent into the eye of a typhoon for scientific observation. The Korea Institute of Ocean Science & Technology (KIOST) said on Tuesday that it will conduct observation on typhoons passing the Korea Peninsula during this summer, using "Wave Glider," an unmanned self-driving ship specialized for …Read more

Boeing and Liquid Robotics, maker of the Sensor-Hosting Autonomous Remote Craft (SHARC), a solar-powered raft-like ASV that uses wave energy for mobility and houses sensors for ocean monitoring, seeded an array of 13 SHARCs off Hawaii. The collected data from all 13 was streamed simultaneously on June 28 in real-time …Read more

Shark attacks on both coasts over the Memorial Day holiday weekend are raising new concerns about beach safety this summer. But new technologies like drones could make swimming less risky, despite reports of a growing shark population, reports CBS News correspondent Carter Evans.

Two years after signing a teaming agreement, Boeing and Liquid Robotics have evolved their persistent maritime intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) capability into a stealthy detector and potential unmanned system tasker in anti-submarine warfare (ASW) and anti-surface warfare (ASuW) demonstrations.

One of the defense industry’s most secretive technology developers — Boeing’s Phantom Works — is making a big bet on commercial robots it believes are better suited to military needs and cheaper than anything the Pentagon could ever invent.

A team of scientists have developed a novel sensing approach using a water drone or robot to listen in on groupers mating. The sensor package and grouper acoustic recognition computer algorithms, developed by FAU's Harbor Branch, have been installed on a Liquid Robotics Wave Glider, which is the first readily …Read more

Liquid Robotics is being awarded a $10 million sole-source contract for Wave Glider unmanned underwater vehicles (UUV) by the US Navy to support research, development, test and evaluation (RDT&E) and operational missions of several on-going projects.

Liquid Robotics has entered into a new channel partnership with Ingenieros Electrónicos Asociados (IEA), one of Argentina’s trusted suppliers of oceanographic electronics and naval communications. This channel agreement enables IEA to sell, support, and service Liquid Robotics’ Wave Gliders throughout Argentina and Uruguay.

Silicon Valley executives are voicing frustration and concern about the length of time it takes for contracts to work their way through the government.

As the Pentagon shifts its focus to Silicon Valley and small firms that dream big but cost little, the conventional defense industry is taking notice. As the Pentagon shifts its focus to Silicon Valley and small firms that dream big but cost little, the conventional defense industry is taking notice.

Kicking off on Earth Day, and running over the full weekend of April 22-24 at UNESCO World Heritage site Fort Island IJmuiden, teams of volunteer coders and technologists will consider problem statements from global fisheries experts and work on providing solutions at the first Fishackathon held in the Netherlands.

The government is to use the solar- and wave-powered Wave Glider ocean-going drones to help patrol the world’s largest marine reserve, the Pitcairn Islands Marine Reserve.

Liquid Robotics, the maker of robot vehicles that explore the ocean and collect data, announced today that one of its robots (named Papa Mau) has traveled all the way from San Francisco to Australia.

The record-breaking 9,000 nautical mile (16,668km) trip took the PacX Wave Glider just over a year to achieve. Liquid Robotics, the US company behind the project, collected data about the Pacific Ocean's temperature, salinity and ecosystem from the drone.

In November of last year, Liquid Robotics dropped four of its brand new Wave Glider robots in the water just off the coast of San Francisco with hopes of making history and learning a thing or two in the offing.

The surfboard-sized robot is one of Liquid Robotics’ Wave Gliders—the first marine robots that propel themselves forward with wave energy. In November 2011, four Wave Gliders took off on a slow journey (they have a top speed of one and a half knots) across the Pacific, armed with sensors that …Read more

Last fall, four autonomous Wave Gliders set out from San Francisco Bay to begin a two-fold mission: gather data about the oceans' depths and break records. The vessels, crafted by ocean data services provider Liquid Robotics, were launched in pairs, with one set headed for Australia and the other, Japan.

On November 17, 2011, a Silicon Valley startup called Liquid Robotics launched four of its Wave Glider robots from San Francisco, two of which were heading toward Australia and the other two on their way to Japan.

Liquid Robotics, the Silicon Valley startup that makes the surfboard-sized robot called a Wave Glider, announced Wednesday that Papa Mau arrived off the coast of Queensland, Australia, on Nov. 20 after surviving storms, sharks and 25-foot surf while its solar-powered sensor arrays collected terabytes of data on ocean and atmospheric …Read more

Liquid Robotics' Wave Glider robots have been in the news regularly for the last year because of the scale of their endeavor: Tiny wave-powered machines, swimming on their own to perform scientific studies, in the vastness of the world's oceans against all the weather you can imagine.

Liquid Robotics used one of its Wave Glider USVs to monitor the weather data during Hurricane Sandy, which hit the east coast of the US at the end of October.

According to Liquid Robotics senior vice president for product management Graham Hine, Wave Gliders are perfect for unmanned exploration because they are propelled by wave power.

Mercury, as the robot is known, survived winds of 128 km/hour and a 54.3 hectopascal drop in atmospheric pressure to send back data to its handlers over in California - a company called Liquid Robotics.

One tough little Wave Glider robot, dubbed "Mercury" by its makers Liquid Robotics, had the misfortune of being about 100 miles east of Tom's River when that beast hurricane Sandy came rumbling towards land.

Liquid Robotics said one of its Wave Glider marine robots named Mercury was 100 miles east of Toms River, N.J., when Sandy hit, but the machine continued to function. It withstood winds of up to 70 knots and continued to transmit real-time weather data about the storm.

The robot, known as the Wave Glider, is produced by Liquid Robotics, a firm established in 2007 to capitalize on the development of an unmanned, station-keeping data buoy for monitoring humpback whales.

As millions of East Coast residents scrambled to get out of the way of “superstorm” Sandy this week, Liquid Robotics was steering one of its seagoing robots directly into the storm’s path.

The new robot, called the Wave Glider, is a solar-powered device with a satellite hookup developed by Sunnyvale's Liquid Robotics. The mobile surfboard-like gadget propels itself using wave energy and carries receivers and a global positioning system.

SHARCs are Sensor Hosting Autonomous Research Craft created by Liquid Robotics. Whereas the AlphaDog can travel 20 miles on its own with limited user intervention, SHARC Wave Gliders are now routinely swimming the world’s oceans, traveling hundreds of miles and going for up to a year without personal human contact.

Unmanned, open-ocean Wave Gliders use no fuel, produce no emissions, and travel up to 2,000 miles using only wave power. Silicon Valley startup Liquid Robotics makes and operates a fleet of these wave-riding robots for predicting tsunamis, tracking fish, and discovering offshore oil leaks; they even patrol waters for national …Read more

Since 2008, the Wave Gliders have been available commercially, but Liquid Robotics usually sells its data services which are sometimes offered to the general public as with their PacX Challenge.

Liquid Robotics, developer of the Wave Glider autonomous robotic surface platform for ocean surveying is broadening its activity to offer government and military solutions by establishing the new Federal Business unit.

Silicon Valley firm Liquid Robotics has taken that robot advantage to our oceans. The company makes a self-propelled, fully autonomous marine research drone that scours the oceans collecting scientific data with solar-powered sensors.

When Liquid Robotics’ Ed Lu dreams, he sees thousands of his firm’s Wave Gliders blanketing the sea—a smart grid for the ocean. It may yet be a dream, but Lu’s vision isn’t terribly far fetched.

A Wave Glider developed by Liquid Robotics and launched by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) was minding its own business collecting ocean chemistry and other data when the storm changed direction and passed over the robot, dubbed G2, according to a Liquid Robotics press release.

The joint venture will see Liquid Robotics provide fleets of Wave Gliders and relevant engineering, piloting and maintenance expertise that Schlumberger can combine with its established technology.

To overcome these issues, NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (PMEL) and Liquid Robotics Inc. (Sunnyvale, California) deployed two Wave Glider unmanned maritime vehicles (UMVs), energy-self-sufficient surface vehicles that can be configured for extended research missions in challenging environments, such as the Beaufort Sea.

Liquid Robotics, Inc.’s (LRI’s) solar and wave-powered Wave Gliders have taken on remote operations in the ocean for a while now, but now one of them, Alex, is taking on its biggest challenge yet, hurricane season.

The eye of Isaac passed barely 60 miles (97 km) east of G2, enabling it to collect valuable ocean data, including evidence of a dramatic drop in water temperature, "suggesting that Isaac was vacuuming the heat from the Gulf," according to its manufacturers, Liquid Robotics, based in Sunnyvale, California.

As one of the nation’s most senior high-tech experts, Vass now serves as CEO of a small but well-funded startup. It’s called Liquid Robotics. And its self-propelled water bots can travel from California to Hawaii without using a single drop of fuel.

Liquid Robotics was incorporated in 2007 in the hopes of creating a "station-keeping data buoy for monitoring humpback whales." The company's flagship product based off this mission is The Wave Glider.

The first, Liquid Robotics' Wave Glider, is envisioned as a persistent surveillance platform, an army of mobile monitoring stations that will remain at sea for the duration of a hurricane season, waiting to swarm into the path of a developing storm.

NOAA launched a robot called “Alex” a few weeks ago off the coast of Puerto Rico, according to IEEE Spectrum, to take a variety of measurements as Isaac developed that could improve intensity predictions. Alex, made by Liquid Robotics and operated by NOAA, primarily measures ocean temperature.

A few weeks ago, a little robot name Alex was launched from the coast of Puerto Rico as part of an effort to improve forecasters' ability to predict hurricane magnitude. Alex, a Wave Glider robot funded by its maker, Liquid Robotics, and operated under the guidance of the U.S. National …Read more

In August of last year, after leaving Google, Gosling joined a California-based startup called Liquid Robotics as their Chief Software Architect. Liquid Robotics makes data collecting ocean robots. Many US research institutions, as well as government and private sector customers use their robots to collect oceanic data.

After first hearing about the "environmentally friendly" unmanned technology developed by the Silicon Valley based company Liquid Robotics, Prof Block said she became "infatuated". The bright yellow shark-tracking robot designed by the company consists of two parts - a glider that descends 23ft (7m) down into the ocean with a …Read more

A wave-gliding robot has been deployed off the coast of San Francisco to stealthily keep an eye on great white sharks in the Pacific Ocean. The surfbot is part of an arsenal of ocean-tracking tech that's receiving data from acoustic tags on the predators and transmitting it back to shore.

Liquid Robotics makes unmanned vehicles, called Wave Gliders, that float on the ocean's surface and generate power through the ebb and flow of the ocean. Because it converts wave motion into thrust, the wake-board-like device can travel to a distant area, collect data and return for maintenance for a year …Read more

Liquid Robotics, developer of the Wave Glider autonomous robotic surface platform for ocean surveying is broadening its activity to offer government and military solutions by establishing the new Federal Business unit.

Researchers at the Ocean Tracking Network, a marine research cooperative based at Dalhousie University, are meeting this challenge with a new piece of technology called the Wave Glider, a remotely controlled vehicle that scientists can drive along the surface of the ocean.

Schlumberger, the global oil and gas technology behemoth, and Liquid Robotics launched a joint venture Thursday to deploy the Silicon Valley startup’s ocean-going robots to provide exploration and monitoring services for the offshore oil industry.

Ten months ago Gosling joined a small company co-headquartered in Silicon Valley and Hawaii called Liquid Robotics, maker of a self-propelled, fully autonomous marine research robot that scours the oceans collecting scientific data with solar-powered sensors.

Before they left California, Liquid Robotics VP of Operations Graham Hine blessed the gliders by smashing a bottle of champagne on one of their frames, asking nature for assistance: “Neptune, god of the seas, and Aeolus, god of the winds, we ask for your blessings upon these vessels that are …Read more

Liquid Robotics operates a fleet of wave-propelled, solar-powered ocean robots. Designed to capture Rizzi's elusive music, they have the potential to do much more: predict tsunamis, track fish, snuff out offshore oil leaks and patrol waters for national security threats.

The surfboard-looking Wave Glider, manufactured by California-based Liquid Robotics Inc., can be equipped with sensors, acoustic recording devices and cameras. It comes with a 1- or 2-meter-high mast on top equipped with a backup GPS, a safety light and equipment to collect weather data.

Edward Lu, a former astronaut who has logged over 206 days in space, says: “NASA folks do quite well as entrepreneurs because there’s a get-it-done philosophy.” Lu joined startup Liquid Robotics, a maker of maritime robots, last year.

Then, last year, Lu heard about a technology so simple yet powerful that it could fundamentally change the way oceanographers, meteorologists, fisheries experts and climate scientists gather their data — so he signed on with a company called Liquid Robotics, which owns the technology, as Chief of Innovative Applications.

The PacX Wave Gliders, built by Liquid Robotics, have smashed the previous record for the furthest distance swam by an unmanned machine. The robot swimmers have travelled 3,200 nautical miles so far of their 9000-mile journey. The previous record was 2,500.

"We are proud our PacX Wave Gliders have reached their first destination and broken the world record," said Edward Lu, chief of innovative applications at Liquid Robotics, which is based in Sunnyvale, Calif.

The drones are taking part in a project to gather data about the composition and quality of sea water. Built by US-firm Liquid Robotics, the PacX Wave Gliders are expected to cover 9,000 nautical miles (16,668km) by their journey's end.

"We don't know what interesting things are in the data," says Ed Lu, chief of innovative applications at Liquid Robotics, the maker of the Wave Glider. The team has already seen swirling patterns in the currents, which may affect models of climate change.

Today, Liquid Robotics' unmanned Wave Glider offers customers a low-cost mobile option for collecting data from the world's oceans and communicating it via satellite. The Wave Glider's patented propulsion system relies solely on the ocean's wave energy to create forward motion—no batteries or fuel required.

Liquid Robotics, a VantagePoint Capital-backed company that deploys floating robots to measure vast amounts of ocean data, plans to start selling information about minute variations in ocean currents that wouldn't have been practical to track using old technology, said chief technology officer James Gosling.

For less than $3,000 a day: (1) BP can get data on water quality in the Gulf of Mexico, a job that used to require multimillion-dollar buoys; (2) government scientists can track the effects of acidification on ocean species, without using expensive ships, crews, and fuel; and (3) the U.S. …Read more

Liquid Robotics has developed a maritime robot that can travel thousands of miles, carry different payloads, energize itself from ocean wave movement, and transmit large amounts of data in real time to its users.

"Wave Glider is a wandering robot that can carry any instruments you want," Gosling said. It can also work in storms that would send a conventional vessel fleeing. The four in the Pacific are among 70 Liquid Robotics has built since 2009.

Greene, a Cornell professor of earth and atmospheric sciences, tests the self-propelled, solar-powered, remotely controlled Wave Glider in Hawaii. Invented by Liquid Robotics Inc., the Wave Glider has drawn a lot of interest from the U.S. Navy for acoustic surveillance applications.

De lograrlo, el premio para Liquid Robotics –la empresa de Silicon Valley que está detrás del proyecto-, será batir el récord Guinness de navegación no tripulada. Además, claro, de abrir para sus "criaturas" marinas un abanico de posibilidades comerciales.

Yesterday, four Wave Gliders—self propelled robots, each about the size of a dolphin—left San Francisco for a journey that combined will total 60,000 kilometers. Built by Liquid Robotics, the robots will travel together to Hawaii, then split into pairs, one pair heading to Japan, the other to Australia.

Four robots have set out on an epic 3,300 nautical mile (3,111 km) journey across the Pacific Ocean. Created by US firm Liquid Robotics, the four are aiming to set the record for the longest distance at sea travelled by an unmanned craft.

During their 300-day journey, the surfboard-sized Wave Gliders made by Silicon Valley startup Liquid Robotics will collect vast amounts of real-time data on ocean conditions and beam it to the cloud where it will be made available free to researchers worldwide.

The team of four seafaring robots, called Wave Gliders, looked something like funky surfboards with antennae and fancy sensors sticking out from everywhere. They were created by the Sunnyvale-based company, Liquid Robotics, which is hoping to eventually unleash a whole fleet of unmanned robots on the world’s oceans.

The robots, known as Wave Gliders, were built by a Silicon Valley startup known as Liquid Robotics. And starting today, the four autonomous sea-faring craft are heading out on journeys to Australia and Japan with the intention of setting the Guinness World Record for the longest distance traveled on the …Read more

The robots come from Liquid Robotics in Sunnyvale, a company founded four years ago, after discovering a way to make unmanned robots that can operate at sea for extended periods of time under their own power. As company vice president Graham Hine explains, the ocean remains one of the last …Read more

After hiring a new chief executive and raising $22 million in June, Liquid Robotics has decided to focus on selling the data the robots provide, rather than the product itself. The company has embarked on a wide range of projects, among them pipeline monitoring, acoustics, mammal studies and oil-leak detection.

A device called the Wave Glider is an example of the new cutting-edge technology being utilized. Developed by a company called Liquid Robotics, the Wave Glider is an eco-friendly, surfboard-sized, autonomous, unmanned vessel powered by the ocean’s wave energy and solar power.

"Combining the Liquid Robotics technology with Scripps Oceanography's ocean bottom seismometer and global network technologies, this development will provide a means of increasing global coverage not only to seismic observations, but also to a variety of ocean bottom observables in an affordable and sustainable way," said Berger.

"Liquid Robotics is extremely proud to collaborate with Scripps Institution of Oceanography for this NSF award," said William Vass, CEO of Liquid Robotics. "We are excited about the opportunity to advance earthquake and tsunami warnings research through the use of our Wave Gliders.

Liquid Robotics' "Wave Glider-Autonomous Ocean Vehicle" was selected by participating delegates during the inaugural Solutions Exchange, held in Savannah GA September 7-8, 2011, and was presented with the 2011 Gulfstream Navigator Award by Mr. Joe Lombardo, EVP Aerospace Group, General Dynamics, the parent company of Gulfstream.

Gosling will become chief software architect for Sunnyvale startup Liquid Robotics, a 4-year-old company that places 7-foot-long robots resembling surfboards in the ocean to collect and transmit data for a variety of uses.

James Gosling, the former Sun Microsystems engineer who went to Google after Sun was acquired by Oracle, has joined Liquid Robotics as chief software architect, he said Tuesday.

Because installing hundreds of kilometres of fibre-optic cable is expensive, researchers are working to develop autonomous seafaring robots that are able to collect the data. One proposed project would pair wave-powered robots developed by Liquid Robotics in Sunnyvale, California, with stand-alone sea-floor sensors.

The Navy is experimenting with a surfboard-shaped, wave-powered robot from a company called Liquid Robotics that can be used to monitor the high seas at a significantly cheaper price than using a ship.

Like many Silicon Valley start-ups, Liquid Robotics Inc. collects data and plans to let customers access the information over the Web. But the company's product stands apart: It makes remote-controlled robotic devices that gather information while cruising the open ocean.

Liquid Robotics recently attracted $22 million in financing from VantagePoint Capital Partners and oil services company Schlumberger Ltd. to expand its fleet of solar-powered seafaring robots. The financing will help Liquid Robotics increase its sales efforts and expand subscription services.

You may not relish the thought of roaming, alone, in the emptiness of an open ocean, but that's exactly the kind of task that marine drone robots from Liquid Robotics are designed for. They're powered by a combination of solar cells, and wave-power generation to supply electricity.

Liquid Robotics' ingenious invention has created global demand for wave-powered robots capable of cruising the world's oceans and sending valuable intel back to the cloud. The Silicon Valley company recently captured the attention of venture firm VantagePoint Capital Partners and oil and gas services giant Schlumberger, who led a $22 …Read more

VantagePoint Capital Partners has led a $22 million growth-equity round for Liquid Robotics Inc., a company whose robots rely solely on wave power to travel the world’s oceans and can monitor for national security, weather and other events.

Liquid Robotics has raised a $22 million series d investment, led by VantagePoint Capital Partners. Based in Hawaii and California, the company makes wave-powered, marine drones that are remote controlled by satellite, and capable of roaming the seas unmanned to gather environmental and defense-related data.

Schlumberger Ltd. and VantagePoint Capital Partners have pumped $22 million into a California company that develops robotic devices that could be used to respond to oil spills. Reuters reports that the investment is the first venture capital deployment for Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Liquid Robotics.

Liquid Robotics, a Silicon Valley startup, has raised a $22 million round of funding to expand its fleet of self-propelled, solar-powered, ocean-going robots. Called Wave Gliders, the robots currently are roaming the world’s oceans to monitor oil and gas wells, keep tabs water quality in the Gulf of Mexico and …Read more

Liquid Robotics named Bill Vass chief executive and announced a $22 million round of funding. The company, which has operations in Sunnyvale and Kamuela, Hawaii, makes the Wave Glider, a self-powered hybrid sea-surface/underwater robotic vehicle.

Sunnyvale, CA-based Liquid Robotics, maker of an autonomous, wave-powered robot that can glide on or below the sea’s surface, carrying industrial, scientific, or military instrumentation payloads, said today that it has raised $22 million in Series D funding.

At the opposite end of the scale is the boogie board-like Wave Glider. Originally developed for oceanography purposes, the wave and solar-powered platform moves at a leisurely knot and a half and has already made an 82 day transit from the US West Coast to Hawaii.

Hine, who has a masters in robotics from Stanford University, quit Asyst in 2006 so he could devote himself to the Wave Glider full-time. A year later he and Jupiter spun the venture off into a standalone company, Liquid Robotics, with Hine at its helm.

Although maritime security and scientific applications have generated the most revenue for Liquid Robotics so far, Hine anticipates that spending by commercial sectors -- specifically petroleum (a $1 trillion industry), wind, and fishing ($200 billion) -- will soon exceed them.

Liquid Robotics Inc., based in Sunnyvale, Calif., is the winner in this category for developing an unmanned seagoing craft propelled by the power of ocean waves. Most unmanned ocean craft can remain at sea for only a short time, relying on batteries to power propellers or pumps.

An autonomous watercraft called the Wave Glider is equipped with satellite telemetry; nine optical water quality sensors, including those for detecting chlorophyll, colored dissolved organic matter (CDOM), and oil; an on-board weather station; solar charging; no fuel, no motor; and no propeller.

The vehicles, known as Wave Gliders and developed by Liquid Robotics in Silicon Valley, California, get their propulsion power from wave action and use solar power for their electronics. They will be deployed beginning today and begin a months-long, ongoing research program in the Gulf of Mexico.

What they produced, with their two-year-old company, Liquid Robotics, is the Wave Glider, a vehicle that will not only allow them to eavesdrop on the whales but could also become a powerful tool that helps scientists to understand climate change better and the military to monitor the high seas.