News. NIWA has demonstrated a floating robot that reports on ocean movement. "It's getting a bit choppy. 3 October, 2007

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News. NIWA has demonstrated a floating robot that reports on ocean movement. "It's getting a bit choppy. 3 October, 2007

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Shows a robot with flowers on its tin trousers floating on a lilo in the ocean. The robot talks into a mobile phone reporting that the sea is getting a bit choppy. A comic take on NIWI's Argo project which sends robotic floats up to 2 kilometres below the surface to measure the movements of the sea. The information is then passed on to scientists and climate and weather centres studying changes in the worlds oceans. Published in Shipping Gazette Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

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2007

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National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research / Ocean currents / Pacific Ocean / Oceanography / Robots

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