We just finished spending a week with 35,000 of our closest colleagues at the world’s largest Defense and Security Conference, DSEI 2017 in London. If you haven’t attended, you could not imagine the entire ExCel Expo Center (over 100,000 square meters) filled with global defense...
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
Off the coast of northern Chile, where the Nazca plate meets the South American plate, scientists from GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel have installed a network of sensors to measure and track seafloor motion. Their goal is to better understand earthquake and tsunami...
What is the reality of maintaining the status quo in military technology? Usually, it’s the safe approach and the one supported by limited budgets, long procurement cycles and unimaginative political and military leadership. Without the courage to think and act differently, to incorporate innovative commercial...
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...
With advances in sensor technology and autonomous systems, scientists are now able to measure seafloor motion down to millimeter-scale accuracy through two miles of seawater. This emerging scientific field of seafloor geodesy is not only opening up research opportunities, but also commercial applications in areas...
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...
One of the core ways we help support our customers’ missions is with our piloting services. So what exactly does a Wave Glider pilot do? Eric Niven, one of our most experienced Mission Support Specialists, and Marc Sallaberry, who leads our Mission Support Operations team,...
Wave Gliders have completed missions all around the world, but some areas present more challenges than others. Operating at high latitudes can be one of the biggest tests. At high latitudes, the first thing we need to consider is the lack of sunlight. Without enough...
Seeing what unmanned systems can do in the ocean is important on many levels. When coupled with data access, this type of transparency encourages collaboration, inspires new ideas, and demonstrates what is possible as both manned and unmanned systems work together. The digital life we...
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)....