Even in a world of increasing satellite coverage, enabling 24/7 maritime monitoring can be difficult and costly with traditional methods such as ships, satellites, and land-based radar systems. Government and military agencies, seaport authorities, and companies that operate in the ocean need ways to scale...
Through ten years of operations and hundreds of customer deployments, we’ve learned a lot. This year at OCEANS ‘17, our Science and Research lead Ryan Carlon presented the paper, Ten Years of Wave Glider Operations: A Persistent Effort. In the paper, he and co-author Justin...
How can you measure seafloor motion with millimeter-scale accuracy through two miles of seawater? The satellite-based GPS technique used on land doesn’t work in the ocean, so we turn to GPS-Acoustics. When you combine GPS and precision acoustics, made possible by advances in sensor technology,...
Onshore, we have shown that semi-autonomous robots have a place in industrial automation. These robots are present in automated warehouses and are generating buzz in the transportation industry. Offshore it’s a different story. It’s much harder, and much more expensive to instrument and monitor an...
What could you do with a robot in the water 24/7? Get extreme current data in real-time, measure seafloor motion with millimeter accuracy, monitor downhole pressure and temperature during well P&A, and more. Today, the offshore energy industry faces tremendous pressure to restructure its base...
Today we announced a new version of the Wave Glider. Here I’ll cover what’s new with this release, and what it means for our customers’ missions. First, a bit of context. Since the Wave Glider SV3 was announced in 2013, we’ve completed hundreds of customer...
Enhanced platform extends operations in high sea states and high latitudes Liquid Robotics®, the leader in long duration, unmanned surface vehicles, today announced the next generation of the Wave Glider with advancements to the
The recent Advanced Naval Technologies Exercise (ANTX) was an impressive demonstration of advanced unmanned systems. Over the course of two days, in two separate but thematically linked locations, dozens of technology concepts were mobilized and demonstrated. Hundreds of participants and visitors from government and industry...
The Digital Ocean is bigger than one product or company. It’s a massive vision for what’s possible when we unite behind a shared purpose: to create a persistent network of sensors and devices from seafloor to space, giving us real-time access to ocean data. Around...
Networking systems or sharing data while working underwater is difficult and expensive. For those of us who don’t work around the ocean or underwater, it can be hard to visualize this. Radio signals, the basis of WiFi, and seawater don’t mix well (think short range)....
I’ve always been interested in business ethics. So, when I considered Liquid Robotics’ offer of employment, my first order of business was to figure out what the company was doing, and why, and whether it was a mission I could get behind. What was the...
Imagine you can send a computer server out into the ocean for up to a year to collect and analyze whatever data you wanted? What would you do with it? That’s the question that has been inspiring researchers to do creative work with Wave Gliders...