A Fleet of Sailing Robots Sets Out To Quantify the Oceans

A Fleet of Sailing Robots Sets Out To Quantify the Oceans Published on May 17, 2018 at 04:05AM pacopico writes: A start-up in California called Saildrone has built a fleet of robotic sailboats that are gathering tons of data about the oceans. The saildrones rely on a hard, carbon-fiber sail to catch wind, and solar …