Robots to fan out across world's oceans to monitor their health


The top of a robotic near-shore ocean float is seen floating in a test tank at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute in Moss Landing California U.S. March 9 2021. Picture taken March 9 2021. REUTERSNathan Frandino

The top of a robotic near-shore ocean float is seen floating in a test tank at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute in Moss Landing, California, U.S., March 9, 2021. Picture taken March 9, 2021. REUTERS/Nathan Frandino

MOSS LANDING, California (Reuters) - After years studying the icy waters of the Southern Ocean with floating robotic monitors, a consortium of oceanographers and other researchers is deploying them across the planet, from the north Pacific to the Indian Ocean.

The project known as the Global Ocean Biogeochemistry Array, or GO-BGC, started in March with the launch of the first of 500 new floating robotic monitors containing computers, hydraulics, batteries and an array of sensors scientists say will relay a more comprehensive picture of the ocean and its health.

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