James Gosling (photo), widely respected for his key role in the development of the Java programming language, has left Google for the greener pastures of robot development. The detailed story about Gosling's departure appeared in today's Mercury News.The robots are not tin men. According to the Mercury News story, they are seven-foot-long machines resembling surfboards, designed to collect and transmit data from the ocean. Liquid Robotics, the firm that manufactures the bots, makes about one-third of its money from selling the data mined from the robots. The balance of the firm's income is derived from selling the robots and from research and development.
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