An autonomous glider silently steers toward whale pods

Claim

Project CETI's autonomous glider uses a four-element hydrophone array to detect echolocation clicks and silently steer toward whale pods, changing buoyancy only seconds per hour to keep its acoustic footprint minimal while staying more than a hundred metres away.

Reporting date: 2026-05-04 (not necessarily the event date)

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