Robot to Break Record, Swim Across Atlantic

A temperature- and salinity-monitoring robot will BREAK THE ROBOT SWIMMING DISTANCE RECORD if it successfully completes its 2,484 nautical mile voyage from Greenland to Spain. The robot, called Spray, is a joint project of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts and the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in California. Another Scripps project will have small ROBOT AIRPLANES flying in formation over the Indian Ocean to measure pollution that has drifted there from over South Asia.