By Michael Mcgough, Sacramento Bee

Deputies with a Lake Tahoe patrol crew helped recover a malfunctioning robot deployed by UC Davis researchers to study climate change, Placer County Sheriff’s Office reported Sunday on Facebook.

And it’s a good thing they picked it up before someone else did, because the yellow-and-blue device bears a fairly strong resemblance to a torpedo.

The autonomous underwater vehicle, nicknamed a “glider,” was studying the lake’s relationship with the area’s winds and temperatures as part of a mission for the university’s Tahoe Environmental Research Center.

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