Aerojet Rocketdyne to Develop Power Management System for US Navy UUVs
Aerojet Rocketdyne has announced that it has received a $1.6 million contract from the U.S. Navy to mature the demonstration capabilities of a power and energy management system that will allow...
View ArticleSparton AHRS Integrated onto Riptide Micro-UUV
Sparton Corporation has announced the integration of its Attitude Heading Reference System (AHRS) products onto Riptide Autonomous Solutions’ unmanned undersea vehicles (UUVs). Riptide chose Sparton’s...
View Article3D at Depth and iXblue Develop INS-Aided Subsea LiDAR Data Collection Technology
3D at Depth, a provider of advanced subsea LiDAR systems and solutions, has announced the success of a recent trial using Inertial Navigation System (INS) aided LiDAR data collection from a moving...
View ArticleDiakont Provides Underwater Robotic Nuclear Decontamination Service
Diakont, a provider of refueling outage tooling and services to the nuclear industry, has announced that it has successfully provided underwater robotic decontamination services on a nuclear power...
View ArticleNew Foam Buoyancy Solution Developed for SuBastian ROV
Trelleborg, a developer of polymer solutions, has announced that its applied technologies division has engineered and manufactured a custom syntactic foam buoyancy package for the Schmidt Ocean...
View ArticleGeneral Atomics Provides Lithium-Ion Battery for Department of Defense UUV
General Atomics has announced that its Electromagnetic Systems group (GA-EMS) has been awarded a contract to provide its Lithium-ion Fault Tolerant (LiFT) battery system for the Semi-Autonomous...
View ArticleNew Unmanned Undersea Robot Hunts Invasive Lionfish
Non-profit organization Robots in Service of the Environment (RSE) has announced the development of the Guardian LF1, an unmanned undersea robot designed to control the population of invasive lionfish...
View ArticleTeledyne Marine Launches New ROV Control Platform
Teledyne Marine has announced that, in partnership with Greensea Systems, it has developed a new remotely operated vehicle (ROV) control platform that unites the intelligence of Greensea’s proven...
View ArticleRobosea Unveils Unmanned Underwater Vehicle with Bionics Technology
Robosea has announced the launch of BIKI, a new unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV) designed with advanced bionics technology. BIKI can be controlled with a physical controller or mobile device app....
View ArticleKraken to Provide AquaPix Sonar for AUVs
Kraken Sonar Inc. has announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Kraken Sonar Systems Inc., has been awarded a repeat contract valued at over C$400,000 by a European defence contractor. Kraken will...
View ArticleBoeing and Huntington Ingalls to Develop UUVs for U.S. Navy
Boeing and Huntington Ingalls Industries have announced that the two firms are teaming on the design and production of Unmanned Undersea Vehicles (UUVs) in support of the U.S. Navy’s Extra Large UUV...
View ArticleTeledyne Introduces Ultra-Compact Pathfinder Doppler Velocity Log for ROVs
Teledyne RD Instruments (TRDI) has announced the official launch of its ultra-compact 600 kHz Pathfinder Doppler Velocity Log (DVL). The Pathfinder provides precision, onboard navigation for subsea...
View ArticleKONGSBERG Announces New Autonomous Underwater Glider Systems
Kongsberg Underwater Technology has announced that it has successfully completed negotiations with CoMotion, the University of Washington’s collaborative innovation hub, to obtain the sole rights to...
View ArticleSonardyne and 2G Robotics to Develop Underwater Dynamic Laser Mapping
2G Robotics and Sonardyne International have announced that the two companies have entered into a formal collaboration agreement. The two organisations are working together on the development and...
View ArticleKraken Uses ThunderFish Alpha AUV as Technology Demonstrator Platform
Kraken Sonar has announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Kraken Sonar Systems, has formally taken delivery of ThunderFish Alpha – a next generation Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) designed for...
View ArticleECA Group Demonstrates Simultaneous MCM Drone Operation to Belgian Navy
ECA Group has announced that it has demonstrated the capability to simultaneously deploy its AUVs (Autonomous Underwater Vehicles), USVs (Unmanned Surface Vessels) and ROVs (Remotely Operated...
View ArticleNew Consumer Underwater Drone Dives to 150 Metres
Blueye Robotics has announced the introduction of the Pioneer, an underwater drone that can dive up to 150 meters – eight times deeper than the average scuba enthusiast. The Pioneer has capabilities...
View ArticleKraken AUV to Search for Lost Canadian Test Aircraft
Kraken Sonar Inc. has announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Kraken Sonar Systems Inc., has been awarded its first “Robotics as a Service” contract by OEX Recovery Group Incorporated, to conduct...
View ArticleSeawater Batteries to Power Long-Range Unmanned Underwater Vehicles
MIT has announced that its spinout company Open Water Power (OWP), recently acquired by major tech firm L3 Technologies, has developed a novel aluminum-water power system that will improve the range...
View ArticleECA Group Demonstrates Advanced AUV Robotics Features
ECA Group has announced that it has successfully demonstrated new advanced robotic features on an experimental version of its A9-E AUV (autonomous underwater vehicle). The AUV had been specially...
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