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Boeing To Acquire Liquid Robotics

By Marc Selinger

Tuesday, December 6th, 2016

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Boeing To Acquire Liquid Robotics

Graphic Illustration representing the Boeing-Liquid Robotics team’s partnership to advance unmanned ocean systems for integrated defense solutions. Image: Liquid Robotics

Looking to expand its footprint in unmanned maritime systems, Boeing [BA] said Dec. 6 that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Liquid Robotics, the developer of the Wave Glider, a wave- and solar-powered ocean robot.Boeing and Liquid Robotics have already collaborated on the Sensor Hosting Autonomous Remote Craft (SHARC), a Wave Glider variant that connects air- and space-based intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities to subsurface crafts.Liquid Robotics, which has about 100 employees in California and Hawaii, will become…

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