Portland’s not a coastal city, so at first glance it may seem a curious choice to host the 2018 AGU/ASLO/TOS Ocean Sciences Meeting. Cold and occasionally rainy, as one would expect for the Pacific Northwest, it also certainly wasn’t peak tourist season. However, its relatively...
Here at Liquid Robotics, we have always had a special place in our hearts for humpback whales. Many of you may know the original application for the Wave Glider was to capture the “singing” of humpback whales as they migrated to Hawai’i. Working with the...
As we look back on 2017, it was a year full of successes and challenges that have collectively enriched our Company. On behalf of all our employees, I want to thank our customers and partners for their incredible work. It’s through your missions we realize...
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...
As 2017 draws to a close, we took a look back at a few of our favorite photos from throughout the year. The ocean never ceases to amaze us! The Wave Glider gets a visit from a dolphin Roger Hine was featured on a panel...
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...
We recently joined the Girl Scouts of Hawaii for their second annual Science-Technology-Engineering-Math (STEM) Fest, held in the town of Waimea on the Island of Hawaii. Seventy-seven energetic Girl Scouts ages 8-14 attended, and several Troops were represented from all across the Island, some driving...
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,...
It’s no secret that folks at Liquid Robotics love the ocean, and I proudly include myself as one of our robotics and ocean loving nerds. For quite a bit of my adult life I worked at sea 6-8 months a year. It was tough on...
Our company values are the foundation of the culture here at Liquid Robotics. They reflect who we are, how we work, and why we’re here. As we expand and welcome new people to the team, we wanted to make sure we had our values written...
Over the past month, Liquid Robotics has been honored to join two global leaders in the fight to protect and sustainably manage our marine sanctuaries and ecosystems. In collaboration with the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) and separately with NOAA’s Office of National Marine...
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...