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Autonomous Sea-Robot Survives Massive Typhoon

Posted by Unknown on from the ride-the-wave dept.

jfruh (300774) writes Liquid Robotics and its Wave Glider line of autonomous seafaring robots became famous when Java inventor James Gosling left Google to join the company. Now one of its robots has passed an impressive real-world test, shrugging off a monster typhoon in the South China Sea that inflicted hundreds of millions of dollars of damage on the region.

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  1. Soylent News by stonedead · · Score: 2, Funny

    The red background for this story reminds me of soylent news during those dark days of beta.

  2. In other news ... by jamesl · · Score: 4, Funny

    ... a two liter Coke bottle survived a massive typhoon.

  3. Re:big deal by Bing+Tsher+E · · Score: 2, Funny

    But this was a floating metal tube containing electronics and running software as fragile as Java.