Autonomous underwater robots, such as ocean gliders, can autonomously navigate the ocean for several weeks. Their sensors measure parameters like temperature, pressure, salinity, oxygen ...

16.01.2025 10:58 Artificial gills for ocean gliders Dr. Torsten Fischer Kommunikation und Medien Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon. Hereon researchers develop an energy system for autonomous underwater ...

The Slocum glider's job is to explore the ocean and report back what it learns. In this March test, the Navy used a helicopter to launch one.

Deep Ocean Gliders CSIRO's Lindsay MacDonald and Ken Ridgway with a deep ocean glider – one of the new tools giving scientists access to more deep ocean data. Image credit ...

A sea-going robotic glider that harvests heat energy from the ocean has been tested by US scientists. The yellow, torpedo-shaped machine has been combing the depths of seas around the Caribbean since ...

HALIFAX — A device used by researchers with Fisheries and Oceans Canada appears to have been the victim of an attack by a great white shark 300 metres under water off the coast of Nova Scotia.

The Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS) has just published its latest annual Report Card on the status of the observing system and how its ocean observing networks meet urgent societal needs, ...

The gliders don't have a propulsion system so they move through the water by changing their buoyancy. ... The ocean glider, which cost about $250,000, can thankfully be repaired, says DFO.