Environmentally Powered Robotic Vehicle
Taking a page out of a science fiction story, researchers from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) and Webb Research Corporation (Falmouth, Mass.) have successfully flown the first environmentally powered robotic vehicle through the ocean. The new robotic “glider” harvests heat
WHOI associate scientist Dave Fratantoni (background) and WHOI postdoctoral scholar Benjamin Hodges prepare to lower the thermal glider into the ocean in December 2007. (John Lund, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
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