3000 Ocean-Going Weather Robots from Oz

texchanchan writes: "From a Yahoo! science article, 'SYDNEY (Reuters) - Scientists met in Australia on Wednesday to launch the next wave in a global climate-alert system by seeding the southern seas with thousands of floating hi-tech robots.' There are already '347 5-feet-tall robotic profilers' mostly in the northern hemisphere. Future releases will 'fully cover the world's oceans by 2006'."