Currently the Hurricane Ian (and Hurricane Fiona before it) is brewing in the Caribbean Sea and will soon make landfall in Floridaa hurricane that has the coasts of the United States in contention and scientists are taking the opportunity to study the formation of these meteorological phenomena.
And it is that now a company of USA has created a series of robots capable of studying Hurricane Ian and hurricane Fiona to learn more about the formation of these phenomena that can put Florida in check.
Specifically, the startup Saildrone and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration of the United States (NOAA), launched different storm robots last week directly into Hurricane Fiona, being able to observe gigantic waves with gusts of wind capable of knocking over practically any object of urban furniture.
The footage that you can see in the Twitter clip has been taken by a kind of orange robot that has built-in sensors and cameras so that we can see something that would be impossible to see being there in person.
This storm bot deployed during Hurricane Fiona is called SD 1078 and it is an autonomous uncrewed storm chaser that has been deployed in the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico collecting data 24 hours a day to help understand the physical processes of hurricanes.
What are these robots for?
These robots provide information about storms like Fiona and help ocean scientists better understand hurricanes and tropical storms before, during and after they cause damage.
“Combining in situ ocean data with a better understanding of the ocean floor will help us predict both storm intensity and storm surgeCEO Richard Jenkins said in a statement.
In this way, thanks to technology, specifically to these robots that are capable of practically entering hurricanes, we can see wild natural phenomena that would be impossible to see otherwise.