Thursday, December 6, 2012

Water Robot

The Wave Glider is a robot that just finished a voyage from SF to Australia.  The company who manufactures it, Liquid Robotics, uses a cleaver method to propel the craft: a small kite hanging below that moved forward as it's lifted or dropped by the craft over the waves. (which gives it about 2 knots of speed.)  NOAA has a page on the unit, and Wired also wrote about it when it made it to Hawaii. 

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