{"id":3713,"date":"2011-11-23T19:41:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-23T19:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2011\/11\/23\/very-bruce-sterling\/"},"modified":"2011-11-23T19:41:00","modified_gmt":"2011-11-23T19:41:00","slug":"very-bruce-sterling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2011\/11\/23\/very-bruce-sterling\/","title":{"rendered":"very bruce sterling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/spectrum.ieee.org\/automaton\/robotics\/industrial-robots\/liquid-robotics-wave-gliders-begin-historic-swim-across-pacific\">Wave Glider Self Propelled Robots Have Begun a Historic Swim Across the Pacific<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Yesterday, four Wave Gliders\u2014self propelled robots, each about the size of a dolphin\u2014left San Francisco for a 60,000 kilometer journey. Built by Liquid Robotics, the robots will travel together to Hawaii, then split into pairs, one pair heading to Japan, the other to Australia. Waves will power their propulsion systems and the sun will power the sensors that will be measuring things like water salinity, temperature, clarity, and oxygen content; collecting weather data, and gathering information on wave features and currents. It\u2019s not going to be an easy journey\u2014the little robots will face rough weather and have to dodge big ships. [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The data from the fleet of robots is being streamed via the Iridium satellite network and made freely available\u2014in an accessible form on Google Earth\u2019s Ocean Showcase, and in a more complete form to researchers who register. Liquid Robotics is eager to see what the scientific community does with all the data\u2014so eager, that it\u2019s asking for project abstracts, and will give a prize to the top five proposals\u2014six months use of a Wave Glider optimized to collect whatever information the winner needs.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wave Glider Self Propelled Robots Have Begun a Historic Swim Across the Pacific: &#8220;Yesterday, four Wave Gliders\u2014self propelled robots, each about the size of a dolphin\u2014left San Francisco for a 60,000 kilometer journey. Built by Liquid Robotics, the robots will travel together to Hawaii, then split into pairs, one pair heading to Japan, the other &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2011\/11\/23\/very-bruce-sterling\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;very bruce sterling&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[133,378,151],"class_list":["post-3713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-futurism","tag-news","tag-robots"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3713\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}