Some of the best applications of technology are ones where someone takes a longstanding process and reimagines it. At one point, people thought “why would I need a camera in my phone?” Now it’s hard to imagine our smartphones without them. It’s simply a more...
If you’re going to send a robot out into the ocean for a long period of time, why not have it do more than one job? Lately we’re seeing more of our missions do just that. Combat Illegal Fishing + Collect Marine Biodiversity Data How...
Liquid Robotics® is honored to announce Admiral (ret.) Sir George Zambellas, the former First Sea Lord of the British Royal Navy, will join Liquid Robotics’ global Strategic Advisory Board. As a member of this distinguished
For those of us who spend most of our time on land, it can be hard to understand how much our lives have changed with the availability of both bandwidth and the internet. If you travel, you think nothing of sending some emails with important...
The idea of widespread, persistent environmental monitoring in the ocean is generally written off as being prohibitively expensive and too complex. And using traditional instruments and approaches, it is. It should come as no surprise that technology is helping us change the answer to this...
Did you know that snow crabs can travel up to 600km (approximately 373 miles)? The Ocean Tracking Network (OTN) is a global research, technology, and partnership organization with headquarters at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. As a leader in the use of autonomous systems...
How do you explain the power of autonomous systems to change how we see and understand activity in the ocean? One great way is to allow people to see just what those unmanned vehicles are doing. A test-drive or simulation is a great, but the...
In this increasingly polarized world it seems so often that we think in polemical terms about economic growth versus environment, right versus left, corporations versus tree huggers. What’s interesting about The Economist’s World Ocean Summit is the way it attempts to break this dichotomy. CEOs,...
Times are tough in Oil & Gas – some of the toughest the industry has seen in decades. These tough times have forced everyone from operators down to manufacturers to shed staff, services, and even capability. Supply chains have been compressed and yet demand still...
Today, we have instant access to information from our smartphones, computers, TVs and now our Google Home. It’s a basic expectation – instant information to any question on anything. I only wish this was true for real-time information on what’s happening along our coastlines and...
This morning I enjoyed the opportunity to moderate the Unmanned Surface Vehicles panel at Oceanology International North America. We had a great discussion about developments in the underlying technology, as well as the latest applications for USVs. For me, three key takeaways stood out: The...
Last in our video series on the Digital Ocean is James Bellingham, Founding Director of the Center for Marine Robotics at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. A pioneer in the development of high performance marine robots, James shares his perspective on the challenges of working in...