Liquid Robotics' Wave Glider autonomous surface vessel successfully gathered weather data through the eye of one of Asia's biggest typhoons in 40 years, the Category 5 Typhoon Rammasun, in the South China Sea. "Our mission in building the Wave Glider was to build a surface drone which could persist in the ocean for very long periods of time despite the ocean's harshest conditions," says Roger Hine, founder and chief technology officer of Liquid Robotics. "There is no truer testament to the Wave Glider platform than the persistence of its sensor payload through one of the most catastrophic storms in recent history." Seaports and transportation systems in the typhoon's path were closed, but the Wave Glider was able to collect and transmit real-time wave, temperature and conductivity data from the surface of the water.
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