(Gliders for Research, Ocean Observation & Management, Research Infrastructure) coordinates several European capacities for observation at sea with Marine Autonomous Systems. This infrastructure promotes a collaborative approach to collect and share oceanographic data, which includes the complex activity of maintaining at sea over long periods a large number of gliders, as well as long range surface or underwater autonomous vehicles.

GROOM RI distributed infrastructure also supports marine robotics testing, development, and training. Like similar pan-European distributed RI facilitating marine research and observations, GROOM RI fosters interdisciplinary excellent curiosity driven research and challenge-oriented science needing sustained observations in coastal seas and in the global ocean.