PHOTOS: The Mind-Blowing, Floating, Unmanned Scientific Laboratory

Wave Gliders are about to make scientific exploration a lot cheaper and safer

(Liquid Robotics)

April 30, 2013

Wave Glider

Wave Glider — (Liquid Robotics)

Recently, the Papa Mau set a world record sailing from San Francisco to Australia. It wasn’t the fastest voyage (the trip lasted a year), but it was the longest of its kind—over 10,000 miles of ocean without a human onboard.

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