Name: The Robots Roaming the High Seas
Uploaded: 2020-03-07T16:34:59.000Z
Duration: 6 min 52 s
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their own course through the waters of San Francisco Bay.

Here he is trying to break the world record

a decade of toiling in deserts around the world.

It encouraged me that nothing has ever gone

around the world unmanned and it's kind of the last

So Jenkins set out to build a robotic sailboat

In 2013, he sent the world's first unmanned vessel

across an ocean, going from San Francisco to Hawaii.

because, you know, it doesn't give a shit,

he found the time to start a new business.

Based in this former aircraft hangar, in Alameda, California

Jenkin's company Saildrone has already raised

And here's what's got those venture capitalists so excited.

A 20 strong fleet of autonomous sea-worthy drones.

That was me, last weekend, I just freehanded that.

Bristling with sensors, scientific equipment,

and cameras, they beam back real time data

and images via satellite from the ocean surface.

These two vehicles are on their way back from

The 2000 mile round trip to an area of Pacific Ocean

Great White's come to this remote spot to hang out

for months at a time and scientists have spent decades

So we're working with Stanford University

to take these vehicles and literally follow the sharks

The drones are ideal for missions like this.

They're much cheaper than large research ships

and can collect many different types of data.

We measure everything you could possibly measure

So a big focus for us this year is deploying drones

into the hurricane field so we can find out how strong

they're going to be and where they're going to land.

And the impacts of that information is huge.

So for insurance risk, financial markets,

On an unmanned craft, hurricane force winds

So instead, the drones harness the wind using the hard

vertical wing adapted from Jenkins' land sailing days.