The Robots Roaming the High Seas
Intelligent, indestructible and with no humans on board, these sailboats are plotting their own course through the waters of San Francisco Bay. If Richard Jenkins ...
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Intelligent. Indestructible. And with no humans on board, these sail boats are plotting their own course through the waters of San Francisco Bay. If this guy gets his way, soon there will be hundreds of them trawling the ocean for data. (electronic music) This is Richard Jenkins. And he's someone who likes a challenge. Here he is trying to break the world record for land sailing in 2009. I registered at 116 miles an hour, which I thought was kind of a low bar and I could do it in maybe a year and it was actually anything but easy. Instead of one year, it took Jenkins a decade of toiling in deserts around the world. But break the record he did, clocking just over 126 miles per hour in his own custom designed vehicle. The next challenge was a nod to Magellan with a mo...
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Intelligent. Indestructible. And with no humans on board, these sail boats are plotting their own course through the waters of San Francisco Bay. If this guy gets his way, soon there will be hundreds of them trawling the ocean for data. (electronic music) This is Richard Jenkins. And he's someone who likes a challenge. Here he is trying to break the world record for land sailing in 2009. I registered at 116 miles an hour, which I thought was kind of a low bar and I could do it in maybe a year and it was actually anything but easy. Instead of one year, it took Jenkins a decade of toiling in deserts around the world. But break the record he did, clocking just over 126 miles per hour in his own custom designed vehicle. The next challenge was a nod to Magellan with a mo...
