 Liquid robotics is unique because we've created a completely new type of vehicle. We call it the wave glider and the wave glider runs entirely on renewable energy And what's really significant about that is that the renewable energy in the area that it operates, which is the ocean Waves and solar power Gives it persistence. It allows it to stay out in the ocean for long periods of time and that's what's new So the wave glider uses wave motion for propulsion It uses solar energy to power the sensors and payloads that it'll carry and this gives us a platform for data collection in the ocean It allows us to do fundamentally new things and existing things in new much more cost-effective ways We can monitor weather. We can monitor extreme events, tsunamis, hurricanes, earthquakes. We'll then transmit that data via satellite Back to wherever the operators are here Where we can pull it up on the screen and see what's going on out there There is no recipe for innovation. If there were we would follow it and it wouldn't be innovative anymore I think that there are some Ingredients that were in place at least when The the wave glider was born and as liquid robotics was formed I think part of it is a willingness to suspend disbelief and work on things that seem like they might be fanciful or even futile And and that's what makes hard. That's that I think that's one of the big reasons why it's hard for big companies to innovate It's it's hard to allow people to work on things that seem fanciful and futile It'd be hard to make to know the difference between that and really wasting their time When you stand on the beach and look out at the ocean You see waves and blue water and and honestly almost no matter what happens To humanity in the ocean. That's probably what you would see But that is such just the tiniest part of what's happening in the ocean Which is filled with tremendously intricate processes that aren't just isolated to the ocean they relate to our lives The interrelationship of processes requires constant detailed monitoring spread out both in time and space and The wave glider is a cost-effective platform. We can put thousands of them out there That are mobile they can monitor What's happening where they are and Travel a Survey pattern or they may just stay put just like a buoy would but they can stay out there for long periods of time and Get continuous data streams. That's what's hard to do from a ship A ship will go out, but then it has to come back a month or so later For refueling and because the crew wants to get off and do something else the wave gliders don't have that constraint They can stay out there for Really as long as we want them to they're not going to run out of fuel. They're not going to They don't need food or or or to see their family and So It's it's a new way of gathering data from the ocean that is Really exciting and how it's going to enable us to understand the planet better and we really need to do that