Wave glider
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| Private | |
| Founded | 2007 |
| Headquarters | Sunnyvale, CA; Kamuela, HI. |
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Key people
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CEO: Gary Gysin |
| Products | Ocean data services |
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Number of employees
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120+ |
| Website | www.lrog.com |
CEO: Gary Gysin
CFO: Pablo Luther
CTO & Founder: Roger Hine
Chief Software Architect: James Gosling
Chief of Innovative Applications: Edward Lu
Liquid Robotics is an American ocean data services provider and developer of the Wave Glider, an autonomous, environmentally powered ocean-going platform for gathering and remotely transmitting information about the surface of the ocean, such as water temperature, and the atmospheric conditions above, such as wind speed. Among Liquid Robotics' customers are defense, oil & gas, commercial and science customers. Liquid Robotics is venture backed by VantagePoint Capital Partners, Riverwood Capital and Schlumberger.
In November 2012, a Liquid Robotics' Wave Glider autonomous underwater glider set a Guinness World Record for the "longest distance traveled on the Earth's surface by a robot" by travelling over 14,000 kilometres (9,000 mi) on an autonomous journey of just over one-year duration.
The Wave Glider is composed of two parts: the float is roughly the size and shape of a surfboard and stays at the surface; the sub has wings and hangs 6 meters below on an umbilical tether. Because of the separation, the float experiences more wave motion than does the sub. This difference allows wave energy to be harvested to produce forward thrust.
The Wave Glider is equipped with computers for navigation and payload control, satellite communication systems, and ocean sensors to measure the environment around it. Sensors have been integrated to measure weather, sea conditions, water quality and chemistry, living organisms, bottom topography and currents. Acoustic microphones and arrays have been adapted to record passing ships and the vocalizations of whales and other mammals. The power needed to operate the sensors and computers is provided by solar panels, which are used to recharge lithium-ion batteries.
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