Yesterday, one of Liquid Robotics‘ wave gliders broke a world record for trekking from San Francisco to Australia. Earlier last month, the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration used a modified Liquid Robotics wave glider to gather information on Hurricane Sandy. What it got:
NOAA deployed a second Wave Glider named Mercury in the Atlantic earlier this week about 100 miles east of Tom’s River, N.J., just off the soon-to-be devastated Jersey Shore. Mercury met Hurricane Sandy head on, streaming back realtime data on the storm as it came charging inland on Monday. Most notably, Mercury recorded winds as high as 70 knots (80 miles per hour) and a plunge in barometric pressure of over 54.3 millibars, troughing at 946 millibars just as Sandy was making landfall.
PopSci has more on robots being used by the NOAA to gather weather data.
