Collaborative Project to Improve Autonomous Navigation for AUVs
Sonardyne International Ltd. has announced that it has initiated a collaborative project to drive a major step change in ocean system autonomy for long-endurance autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs)....
View ArticleMissing Submarine Located with AUVs
Ocean Infinity, a seabed exploration company, has announced that it has used a fleet of five Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) to locate ARA San Juan, the Argentine Navy submarine which was lost...
View ArticleHydroid Supplies Next Generation AUV to Japanese Marine-Earth Science Agency
Hydroid, Inc., a manufacturer of autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs), has announced that it has received an order for a New Generation REMUS 6000 AUV from the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science...
View ArticleSonardyne Releases New Unified Software Solution for UUV Surveys
Sonardyne International Ltd., an underwater positioning and navigation specialist, has announced that it has launched a new software platform that brings reduction in complexity and overheads for...
View ArticleMicro-AUVs Trialled by Royal Navy
Planet Ocean has announced that its ecoSUB AUV (Autonomous Underwater Vehicle) has been successfully trialled in the North Sea off Orkney during a marine robot demonstrator mission co-ordinated by the...
View ArticlePersistent Autonomous Underwater Tracking System Under Development
GeoSpectrum Technologies (GTI) has announced that it has received funding from the Government of Canada under the Innovation for Defence Excellence and Security Program (IDEaS), to commence the...
View ArticleU.S. Marine Corps Selects L3 OceanServer UUV
L3 OceanServer, a developer of autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs), has announced that it has been awarded a contract to support the U.S. Marine Corps Systems Command for an Iver3 Unmanned...
View ArticleThales and MSubs to Develop Maritime Autonomous Systems
Thales has announced that it has signed an agreement with MSubs Ltd. for the two firms to collaborate on the development of Unmanned Underwater Vehicles (UUVs). This agreement combines Thales’ global...
View ArticleUUV Surveys Reveal New Hydrothermal Vents
Schmidt Ocean Institute has announced that a new hydrothermal vent field has been discovered during an expedition aboard the Institute’s R/V Falkor. The vents were identified using Monterey Bay...
View ArticleLong-Range AUV Developed for Oil Spill Mapping
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has announced that it has developed a long-range autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) to map oil spills in the Arctic. As ice recedes and maritime...
View ArticlePowerVision Unveils New Marine Drone
PowerVision Technology Group, a developer of UAV (unmanned aerial vehicles), has extended its drone offerings to include marine vessels PowerDolphin, PowerRay, and PowerSeeker. The PowerDolphin...
View ArticleShipboard Integration Testing of MCM UUV and USV Completed
The Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) has announced that the Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) Mission Module Program has successfully completed shipboard integration testing of two unmanned systems on...
View ArticleTeledyne Gavia to Launch New 6000m Rated AUV
Teledyne Gavia, a developer of autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs), has announced that the company will formally introduce its new 6000 meter rated AUV, SeaRaptor, at the 2019 Ocean Business...
View ArticleRocket-Deployed Weather Instruments Launched from Unmanned Vessel
Scientists from the Institute of Atmospheric Physics at the Chinese Academy of Sciences have announced that they have launched a rocketsonde – a rocket designed to perform weather observations in...
View ArticleGigabit Ethernet Camera Range Released for ROVs
Teledyne Marine has announced the launch of a new range of GigE underwater cameras for ROVs (Remotely Operated Vehicles), with the first units being provided to Seatronics for standard fit on their new...
View ArticleTeledyne Marine Delivers Unmanned Underwater Vehicles to UAE Navy
Teledyne Marine has announced that, through local partner Trust International Group (Abu Dhabi), it has delivered unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs) to the UAE Navy to support Search and Recovery...
View ArticleOcean Discovery XPRIZE Finalists Conduct Final Field Tests
XPRIZE has announced that the three finalist teams competing for the $1M Bonus Prize, sponsored by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), in its Shell Ocean Discovery XPRIZE, have...
View ArticleUnderwater ROV Tracking for Aquaculture Successfully Trialled
Sonardyne International has announced that joint trials conducted with Norwegian research institute SINTEF Ocean have proven the ability for an acoustic positioning system to track underwater robots...
View ArticleAUV Communication Nodes to be Developed for Deepwater Monitoring
Sonardyne International has announced that it has agreed a partnership with Shell Brasil and Brazilian research institute Senai-Cimatec to develop innovative autonomous technology to make the...
View ArticleNew Prototype Lionfish-Capturing UUV Unveiled
Nonprofit organization Robots in Service of the Environment (RSE) has announced the RSE Guardian LF1 Mark 3 prototype, an unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV) designed to control the population of...
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