Drones take to the waves: Saildrones are getting data where people can’t
arstechnica.com
They can monitor the Antarctic year round and sail straight into hurricanes.

Stole this from another sub (don’t know how to cross-post) but it’s an interesting application of sailing.

  • A_A@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Cross-posting, here at Lemmy, means only that the exact same URL was used twice in the URL field of two posts (and +) at different communities (+instances).
    Edit : … or it means that the titles of two posts are exactly the same.

  • swope@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    So the robots get to sail the world while I’m stuck here on a zoom call? This is not the future we wanted.

    But more seriously, this seems like a really good application of autonomous systems.

    I’d like to do something like this with autonomous dynamic soaring aircraft if there’s a science need for that kind of flying.