The wave glider, a robot to catch data in the ocean
The wave glider, a robot to catch data in the ocean
The Wave Glider is the most experienced unmanned surface vehicle (USV) on the planet, revolutionizing how we explore and understand the world's oceans.
I was watchin the last episode of ''earthsounds'' (docuseries that you can find on torrent) and they said to have used one of this with a microphone mounted under it to record better sounds from whales (because they travel a looooooot and not always on the same routes).
Autonomous robot solarpowered to catch better ocean data, pretty solarpunk to me :3
p.s. the series is nice even tho first 4 episodes have much more cool sounds; it's also interesting to see how hard it is to capture the sounds at the end of every episode
p.p.s. ye, it's not open source, by a company owned by boeing and probably also used for militar purposes so it's not perfectly as we would like it to be