The surfing robot helping to save the Great Barrier Reef
An autonomous floating robot packed with sensors has been deployed to monitor the waters surrounding the Great Barrier Reef.
An autonomous floating robot packed with sensors has been deployed to monitor the waters surrounding the Great Barrier Reef.
It was a storm that would terrify the bravest of mariners, but a California robot swam through it without blinking.
Oceanographers announced today that a global observing system – based on drifting sensors that travel from the ocean’s surface to mid-depths – reached the milestone of 1 million ocean observations.
It survived a shark attack, battled gale force storms and surfed the East Australian Current during its journey across the Pacific Ocean from San Francisco to the East Coast of Australia, all in the name of science.