The open ocean certainly wasn't a choice place to be earlier this week as Hurricane Sandy crept toward the East Coast. A floating robot, however, survived the rough waters in one piece.
The robot, called Mercury, is one of a series of Wave Gliders by California-based Liquid Robotics. Mercury was about 100 miles off the New Jersey shoreline collecting atmospheric pressure and wave height data as Sandy battered the coast Monday and Tuesday.
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The Wave Glider robots are weather monitoring packages that convert the motion of waves into forward momentum; their goal is to collect tropica…
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