Boeing to Cover Ocean in Self-Powered Surveillance Robots

Boeing and Liquid Robotics today announced a partnership to make water-borne robots that can handle a variety of surveillance jobs, ranging from hunts for submarines to the detection of drug traffickers.

Silicon Valley’s Liquid Robotics is the manufacturer of the Wave Glider SV3, a $300,000 self-powered, seafaring data center that offers customers — until now, mostly researchers and marine industry companies — tools for investigating the open seas for months at a time.

This seems scary to me, although is seems cool in a "finally nearing life as portrayed in the Jetsons kind of way." Seriously though, it'll be cool until government contracts get involved.


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