A new tool called a Slocum glider measures the ocean heat that fuels super-storms like Florence, filling in data gaps to help make forecasting more accurate. Skip to main content ...

Fig.1: A Slocum glider from Teledyne Webb Research, ... an optional hybrid thruster provides speeds to 100 cm/s. Slocum gliders fly in an undulating sawtooth pattern, ...

But for the stubby-winged and narwhal-horned "Slocum ocean glider," this is the world it was made for. ... In 2014, the agency had two gliders ready to launch in preparation for hurricane season.

Out in the Atlantic Ocean’s choppy waters, an autonomous underwater drone has just completed a circumnavigation completely unaided by humans.

The Slocum ocean glider was invented by Douglas Webb, a Massachusetts oceanographer. He imagined heroic possibilities for the vehicle and named it after Joshua Slocum, the first person to sail ...

They call them "gliders," but these move through water instead of air. Two new robotic underwater gliders----powered by changes in their own buoyancy or by different temperature layers in the ...

A Slocum glider. Teledyne. For the LSB-G program, Navy specifications stipulate that the robot must be able to operate at a depth of 3,300 feet for up to 90 days.

The Slocum Glider, developed by Webb Research Corp. (WRC) can propel itself through water using only the differential temperatures of varying depths and a thermal engine. The glider's thermal engine ...

The new SixSense package will be tested on autonomous underwater vehicles like the Autosub Long Range and Slocum Glider platforms. This miniature sensor will measure six key parameters ...