UK’s largest ever marine robot fleet takes to the seas

A two-week mission involving ten marine robots has got underway off the coast of northwest Scotland in preparation for the Royal Navy’s Unmanned Warrior exercise.
(Credit: Yannlepage via CC)It is the third in a series of demonstrator missions run by the National Oceanography Centre (NOC), and sees the biggest ever robot fleet operating simultaneously in UK waters. A total of seven submarine gliders and three surface Wave Gliders will collect environmental data, feeding it back to the