<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/02/business/wave-glider-a-floating-robot-seeks-to-network-the-oceans.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/02/business/wave-glider-a-flo...</a><p>"I was told 'find something interesting to do'." -jag<p>They should have been a wee bit more specific about whose interests they were referring to!
Here's a 1 hour talk on the Wave Glider:
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cq4G2ciXjZI&t=13m11s" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cq4G2ciXjZI&t=13m11s</a>
I wonder if these can be considered the next generation of underwater gliders. There was a very interesting program on them recently - either on PBS or Discovery, can't recall exactly.
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underwater_gliders" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underwater_gliders</a><p>One of these made an Atlantic crossing.<p><a href="http://ocean.si.edu/ocean-news/underwater-robots-explore-ocean" rel="nofollow">http://ocean.si.edu/ocean-news/underwater-robots-explore-oce...</a>