2007 headquarters sunnyvale ca ; kamuela hi . key people ceo gary gysin cfo pablo luther cto & founder roger hine chief software architect james gosling chief of innovative applications edward lu svp of mission services graham hine products ocean data services number of employees 120 citation needed website www.liquidr.com www.lrog.com liquid robotics is an american ocean data services provider and developer of the wave glider an autonomous environmentally powered ocean going platform for gathering and remotely transmitting information about the surface of the ocean such as water temperature and the atmospheric conditions above such as wind speed . among liquid robotics customers are defense oil & gas commercial and science customers . 1 liquid robotics is venture backed by vantagepoint capital partners riverwood capital and schlumberger . 2 contents 1 history 2 wave glider 2.1 initial wave glider 2.2 wave glider sv3 3 pacx challenge 3.1 pacx competition 4 management 4.1 board of directors 5 strategic advisory board 6 references 7 external links history edit in november 2012 a liquid robotics wave glider autonomous underwater glider set a guinness world record for the longest distance traveled on the earth s surface by a robot by travelling over 14 000 kilometres 9 000 mi on an autonomous journey of just over one year duration . 3 wave glider edit underwater picture of wave glider above the wave glider is composed of two parts the float is roughly the size and shape of a surfboard and stays at the surface ; the sub has wings and hangs 6 meters below on an umbilical tether . because of the separation the float experiences more wave motion than does the sub . this difference allows wave energy to be harvested to produce forward thrust . initial wave glider edit the wave glider is equipped with computers for navigation and payload control satellite communication systems and ocean sensors to measure the environment around it . sensors have been integrated to measure weather sea conditions water quality and chemistry living organisms bottom topography and currents . acoustic microphones and arrays have been adapted to record passing ships and the vocalizations of whales and other mammals . the power needed to operate the sensors and computers is provided by solar panels which are used to recharge lithium ion batteries . the wave glider can be programmed for autonomous operation or it can be steered by a remote pilot over the internet . continuous near real time communication is provided via satellite cellular phone or radio links for piloting and data transmission . 4 wave glider sv3 edit in april 2013 liquid robotics announced a follow on to the original wave glider with the capability to do more data analysis and processing on board the floating unit while providing additional oceanographic and atmospheric data collection and transmission services a floating server rack for providing services to the fishing and oil & gas industries . 5 pacx challenge edit chlorophyll fluorescence data collected during the pacx journey in november 2011 liquid robotics launched the pacx challenge an attempt to get four wave gliders across the pacific . they were launched from san francisco s st. francis yacht club and travelled together to hawaii a distance of nearly 6000 km arriving in march 2012 . 6 the wave gliders launched from hawai i on 21 may 2012 for the second leg of their voyage with two headed across the mariana trench to japan and two to australia . on 20 november 2012 the first of the wave gliders papa mau named in honor of mau piailug reached australia . 7 papa mau completed its 9 000 nautical mile 17 000 kilometer journey across the pacific ocean to australia setting a new world record for the longest distance traveled by an autonomous vehicle . pacx competition edit the pacx challenge awards a prize to the best research proposal submitted utilizing data gathered on the transpacific crossing . the prize comprises a 50 000 research grant courtesy of bp the oil and gas industry supporter of the pacx challenge and six months of wave glider time . the winner will work with liquid robotics to chart the course and mission for the six month deployment including the configuration of onboard sensors . 8 management edit board of directors edit liquid robotics board of directors 9 roger hine co founder cto and co inventor of the wave glider mark leslie managing director leslie ventures robert momsen general partner interwest partners joseph d. rizzi chairman of the board liquid robotics and president & executive director jupiter research foundation alan e. salzman chief executive officer vantagepoint capital partners john w. thompson chairman of the board of directors symantec corp. gary gysin president & ceo liquid robotics inc. ashok belani evp technology schlumberger limited michael marks founding partner riverwood capital strategic advisory board edit marv langston former dep . asst. secretary of defense usdod chairman of the sab bill vass vp of engineering amazon web services former ceo of liquid robotics president and chief operating officer of sun microsystems federal cio of sun microsystems office of the secretary of defense office of the cio archie clemins admiral us navy former commander in chief us pacific fleet robert s. gelbard founder and chairman washington global partners llc former ambassador to the republic of indonesia joanne isham former l 1 and bae executive former deputy director for nga and cia arthur art money former asst secretary of defense c3i usdod former president of esl inc. john tozzi rear admiral us coast guard ret john gage former partner kleiner perkins caufield & buyers james bellingham chief technologist monterey bay aquarium research institute mbari scott mcnealy chairman wayin former ceo and founder sun microsystems karl rauscher bell labs fellow distinguished fellow and cto of the eastwest institute millard s. firebaugh independent consultant for defense & energy admiral u.s. navy ret gregory poulos maritime attorney partner cox wooton griffin hansen & poulos tim richardson strategic advisor georgia tech research institute board member at ixys corporation samplify jupiter research foundation boyd robinson defense consultant former radm royal australian navy ran former chairman navy health eric terrill director coastal observing research and development center marine physical laboratory scripps institution of oceanography references edit shalal andrea 23 september 2014 . boeing liquid robotics to cooperate on maritime surveillance . reuters . retrieved 11 november 2014 . about liquid robotics . www.liquid robotics.com . retrieved 2016 03 10 . terdiman daniel 2012 12 05 . science robot ends guinness record breaking ocean journey . c net . retrieved 2013 04 10 . wave glider concept . website . liquid robotics . retrieved 2012 03 14 . terdiman daniel 2013 04 08 . liquid robotics launches autonomous sea faring data center . c net . retrieved 2013 04 10 . swimming robots break world distance record in pacific bbc news 14 march 2012 retrieved 6 december 2012 . swimming robot reaches australia after record breaking trip bbc news 5 december 2012 retrieved 6 december 2012 . pacx challenge liquid robotics retrieved 6 december 2012 . http liquidr.com company board of directors external links edit pacx challenge liquid robotics homepage revolutionary tool will methodically track fish populations in the ocean retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title liquid robotics & oldid 725598887 categories robotics companiesoceanographic instrumentationcompanies based in sunnyvale californiahidden categories all articles with unsourced statementsarticles with unsourced statements from april 2013 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom 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