Liquid Robotics is an ocean data services provider and developer of the Wave Glider marine robot that functions as a persistent and versatile platform for scientific and industrial payloads.
The company is headquarter in Sunnyvale, California

Sunnyvale, California

Sunnyvale is a city in Santa Clara County, California, United States. It is one of the major cities that make up the Silicon Valley located in the San Francisco Bay Area...

 and an Marine Engineering Facility in Kamuela, Hawaii.

In August 2011 James Gosling

James Gosling

James A. Gosling, OC is a computer scientist, best known as the father of the Java programming language.-Education and career:In 1977, Gosling received a B.Sc in Computer Science from the University of Calgary...

 left Google

Google

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 for the company. They produce a product called the 'wave glider', an autonomous aquatic surveillance device.

The CEO is Bill Vass

Bill Vass

William Vass is the President and CEO of , a well-funded startup company that has developed an entirely new type of unmanned autonomous robotic marine vehicle with wide-ranging applications . Drawing all of its energy from the environment, the Wave Glider platform attempts to revolutionize ocean...

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