Solar-powered and wave-propelled robots get USD45 million in funding for ocean data mining
The funding will be used to expand the Company’s global sales, partner, and services organizations to meet the increasing demand for its ocean observation and monitoring services. This investment will also fund development and delivery of new cost effective solutions for the worldwide Defense, Science & Research, and Oil & Gas markets.
Recently the company had announced that its solar-powered and wave-propelled marine robot, the Wave Glider had completed a 9,000 nautical mile cross-Pacific journey, navigating along a prescribed route under autonomous control while collecting and transmitting unprecedented amounts of high-resolution ocean data.
The Company is providing open access to this data as part of its PacX Challenge, a global competition seeking new ocean applications and research using the PacX data set.
“We set off on the PacX journey to demonstrate that Wave Glider technology could not only survive the high seas and a journey of this length, but more importantly, collect and transmit ocean data in real-time from the most remote portions of the Pacific Ocean. We’ve demonstrated delivery of ocean data services through the most challenging ocean conditions”, stated Bill Vass, CEO of Liquid Robotics.
Visit Liquid Robotics at www.liquidr.com
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