Roger Hine

摘要

In 2005, Roger Hine was designing equipment to manufacture semiconductors at Asyst Technologies in Fremont, Calif., when he was asked to take on an offbeat freelance project. Jupiter Research Foundation, a nonprofit that develops new technologies to monitor the natural world, contacted the robotics engineer about creating a gizmo to help record whale sounds. Jupiter had already tried hooking up an underwater microphone to a buoy, but that proved unworkable.