Marine Unmanned Surface Systems (USV) News

The latest ASV / USV news for Autonomous and Unmanned Surface Vehicles. Articles on commercial and naval USV, military ASV, uncrewed surface vessels, product launches and technological advances in USV design and manufacture

Sea Machines Selected for DoD Replenishment Vessels

Sea Machines Robotics’ autonomous command and control technology for unmanned surface vessels (USVs) has been selected by the U.S. Department...

Oct 10, 2020
SeeByte deliver step change in linking underwater autonomy and communications

SeeByte, a global leader in developing smart software solutions for unmanned maritime systems have successfully linked autonomy and communications to...

Oct 08, 2020
U.S. Coast Guard R&D Center Acquires New Autonomous Vessel

Sea Machines Robotics has partnered with shipbuilder Metal Shark Boats to supply the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG)’s Research and Development...

Sep 30, 2020
iXblue Navigation Technology Selected for Mayflower Autonomous Ship

iXblue’s navigation technology has been selected by marine research organization ProMare for incorporation into the Mayflower Autonomous Ship (MAS), providing...

Sep 26, 2020
Lockheed Martin Begins Large USV Study for US Navy

Lockheed Martin will undertake a study for the U.S. Navy’s Large Unmanned Surface Vessel (LUSV) competition centred around a design...

Sep 17, 2020
AI-Powered Software Supports USV Seabed Survey Mission

Teledyne CARIS’ Mira AI cloud platform and CARIS Onboard software have been used to enable onboard autonomous survey and real-time...

Sep 13, 2020
USV Conducts Bathymetric Surveys in Salt Lake

OceanAlpha’s ME120 unmanned surface vessel (USV) has been used to conduct bathymetric surveys in a high-salinity lake as part of...

Sep 06, 2020
GNSS-Aided INS Integrated into Autonomous Hydrographic USV

SBG Systems’ Ekinox2-D dual-antenna GNSS-aided INS (Inertial Navigation System) has been integrated into Poland’s first autonomous hydrographic USV (unmanned surface...

Aug 25, 2020
US Navy Medium USV Program Prototype Under Development

The U.S. Navy has contracted L3Harris Technologies to develop a prototype for the Medium Unmanned Surface Vehicle (MUSV) program, the...

Aug 22, 2020
Forward Looking Sonar System Provides Underwater Situational Awareness for USVs

Wavefront has launched a new long-range, forward-looking sonar (FLS) designed to provide seaborne obstacle avoidance for unmanned surface vessels (USVs)....

Aug 22, 2020
USVs to Conduct Unmanned River Delta Survey

Seafloor Systems has been contracted by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) to develop two custom HydroCat-180 unmanned surface vessels (USVs)...

Aug 21, 2020
SeeByte and MIT successfully combine autonomy engines for best of breed “system of systems”

SeeByte and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have successfully combined SeeByte’s Neptune autonomy engine with MIT’s MOOS-IVP during the...

Aug 18, 2020
SPECTRE Autopilot Integrated into Hydrographic Survey USV

Dynautics’ SPECTRE autopilot has been integrated into a USV (unmanned surface vessel) developed by CEE HydroSystems to meet customer demand...

Aug 04, 2020
USV Performs Multibeam Mapping of River Terrain

OceanAlpha’s ME120 autonomous unmanned surface vessel (USV) has been used to perform an underwater topographic survey of the Qiankun Bay...

Aug 01, 2020
Maritime Autonomy and Radar Systems Integrated into U.S. Navy ASV

Spatial Integrated Systems (SIS) and Cambridge Pixel have collaborated to provide integration of innovative maritime autonomy and radar technologies for...

Jul 29, 2020
Sea Machines Robotics Receives New Strategic Investment

Sea Machines Robotics has recently closed a new $15 million financing round with significant participation by major military shipbuilding company...

Jul 24, 2020
Unmanned Superyacht Support Vessel Concept Unveiled

SEA-KIT has unveiled a new unmanned surface vessel (USV) that has been specifically designed as a support vessel for superyachts....

Jul 22, 2020
New Autonomous Guard USV Unveiled

A design for a new unmanned surface vessel (USV) concept, created by Sea Machines and a consortium of partners including...

Jul 21, 2020
Mini-UAS Integrated into Seagull USV

Elbit Systems has trialled the integration of a mini-UAS (unmanned aerial system) into its Seagull Unmanned Surface Vessel (USV), in...

Jul 12, 2020
North Sea Underwater Soundscape Mapped with USV

The Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ) has utilised an AutoNaut USV (unmanned surface vessel) to map the underwater soundscape of the...

Jul 08, 2020
NOC Equips USVs with Airmar WeatherStation Instruments

AIRMAR® Technology Corporation has confirmed that their ultrasonic WeatherStation® Instruments have been selected by the UK’s National Oceanography Centre (NOC)...

Jul 04, 2020
The Use of Motion Reference Units for Marine Navigation

Inertial Labs has released an article that outlines the history of marine navigation and the development of modern motion reference...

Jul 04, 2020
ASV Conducts Shallow-Water Survey for US Coast Guard

Seafloor Systems’ EchoBoat-160 autonomous surface vessel (ASV) has been used by NOAA’s (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) Office of Coast...

Jul 03, 2020
New Miniature Multibeam Echosounder for USVs Launched

Under Picotech has launched the PicoMB-130-Surf, an integrated multibeam echosounder for man-portable USVs (unmanned surface vehicles) and other small survey...

Jul 02, 2020
Autonomous USV Launch & Recovery System Demonstrated

Sealartec has demonstrated a unique fully-autonomous launch and recovery system for unmanned surface vessels (USVs) in a series of trials...

Jul 02, 2020
Common Questions About Autonomous Marine Technologies

Sea Machines has created an article that provides answers to questions commonly received by the company about autonomous marine technologies...

Jul 01, 2020
Advancing Unmanned Systems Through Strategic Collaboration UST works with major OEMs to foster collaboration and increase engagement with SMEs, to accelerate innovation and drive unmanned systems capabilities forward.