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

Dstl MAST USV Tested at Unmanned Warrior
Dstl MAST USV Tested at Unmanned Warrior

The UK Ministry of Defence’s Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) has announced that its new Maritime Autonomy Surface Testbed...

Oct 22, 2016
BAE Showcases Autonomous Vessels and Control System at Unmanned Warrior
BAE Showcases Autonomous Vessels and Control System at Unmanned Warrior

BAE has announced that it will be showcasing its unmanned boat technology and a bespoke transportable command and control system...

Oct 14, 2016
New Testing Software Simulates Autonomous Vessel Control
New Testing Software Simulates Autonomous Vessel Control

H-Scientific Ltd (HSL), a developer of ship simulation technologies, has announced the release of ShipSim 3 and AUVSim, simulation software...

Oct 07, 2016
Thales Tests Unmanned Systems During Royal Navy Exercise
Thales Tests Unmanned Systems During Royal Navy Exercise

Thales is playing a major role in a large Royal Navy demonstration this week, to determine the feasability of using unmanned...

Oct 05, 2016
ASV Global and UK MoD Sign Licence Agreement for USV Software
ASV Global and UK MoD Sign Licence Agreement for USV Software

ASV Global has announced that it has signed a licence agreement with the UK Ministry of Defence allowing for the...

Sep 28, 2016
ASV Global Expands Autonomous Marine Technology into South America
ASV Global Expands Autonomous Marine Technology into South America

ASV Global, a manufacturer of Autonomous Surface Vehicles, has announced that the company has expanded into the Brazilian city of...

Sep 13, 2016
Liquid Robotics Announces Business and Technology Partnership with Maritime Robotics
Liquid Robotics Announces Business and Technology Partnership with Maritime Robotics

Liquid Robotics, a provider of long-duration unmanned ocean robots, has announced a new business and technology partnership with Maritime Robotics,...

Sep 08, 2016
Royal Navy MAST USV Completes Tidal Thames Trials
Royal Navy MAST USV Completes Tidal Thames Trials

The UK’s Maritime Autonomy Surface Testbed (MAST), an unmanned surface vessel (USV) based on the innovative Bladerunner hull shape, has...

Sep 06, 2016
ASV Global and TerraSond Complete Unmanned Hydrographic Survey in Bering Sea
ASV Global and TerraSond Complete Unmanned Hydrographic Survey in Bering Sea

ASV Global, a developer of unmanned marine systems, and TerraSond, a provider of hydrographic and geophysical surveys, have announced that...

Sep 02, 2016
Northrop Grumman to Demonstrate Unmanned Mine Hunting Capability
Northrop Grumman to Demonstrate Unmanned Mine Hunting Capability

Northrop Grumman Corporation has announced that it will be demonstrating its unmanned mine hunting capability during the UK Royal Navy’s...

Sep 02, 2016
ASV Global to Provide SeaTrepid DeepSea with New Unmanned Surface Vehicles
ASV Global to Provide SeaTrepid DeepSea with New Unmanned Surface Vehicles

ASV Global, a developer of unmanned and autonomous surface vehicle technology, has announced that it is to design and build...

Aug 10, 2016
Liquid Robotics and Hydro Systems Development Deliver USVs to Japan Coast Guard
Liquid Robotics and Hydro Systems Development Deliver USVs to Japan Coast Guard

Liquid Robotics, a developer of unmanned ocean robots, has announced that in conjunction with the firm’s Japanese partner Hydro Systems...

Aug 09, 2016
BAE Demonstrates Latest Autonomous Naval Technologies
BAE Demonstrates Latest Autonomous Naval Technologies

BAE Systems has successfully delivered a live demonstration of its latest unmanned naval technologies in a realistic scenario in the...

Aug 01, 2016
Leidos Completes Initial Performance Tests Of DARPA ACTUV USV
Leidos Completes Initial Performance Tests Of DARPA ACTUV USV

Leidos has completed initial performance trials of the technology demonstration vessel it is developing for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency...

Jul 25, 2016
SeeByte and MIT CSAIL to Collaborate on Unmanned Systems Cooperation
SeeByte and MIT CSAIL to Collaborate on Unmanned Systems Cooperation

SeeByte, a provider of smart software for unmanned maritime systems, and MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) have...

Jul 11, 2016
Seagull USV Successfully Completes Torpedo Trials
Seagull USV Successfully Completes Torpedo Trials

Elbit Systems has announced that it has recently completed a trial test torpedo launch from its Seagull multi-mission, autonomous Unmanned Surface...

Jun 30, 2016
AutoNaut 5m USV Tested in QinetiQ Ocean Basin
AutoNaut 5m USV Tested in QinetiQ Ocean Basin

MOST (Autonomous Vessels) Ltd. has announced that the company’s new 5m AutoNaut vessel has been tested successfully in QinetiQ’s Ocean Basin...

Jun 22, 2016
Erle Robotics Unveils PiZero USV Boat
Erle Robotics Unveils PiZero USV Boat

Erle Robotics has unveiled the latest addition to its fleet of PiZero Smart robotic solutions. The Erle-Boat is a Linux-based...

May 25, 2016
Cambridge Pixel Introduces Radar Display for Unmanned Surface Vehicles
Cambridge Pixel Introduces Radar Display for Unmanned Surface Vehicles

Cambridge Pixel, a developer of radar display, tracking and recording subsystems, has announced the launch of USVx, a new radar...

May 11, 2016
QinetiQ to Demonstrate Integration of Unmanned Systems into Royal Navy Operations
QinetiQ to Demonstrate Integration of Unmanned Systems into Royal Navy Operations

QinetiQ has announced that it has been awarded a £1m contract by the UK Ministry of Defence (MOD) to provide...

May 05, 2016
DARPA Unveils ACTUV Autonomous Technology Demonstration Vessel
DARPA Unveils ACTUV Autonomous Technology Demonstration Vessel

DARPA has announced that it has completed the prototype technology demonstration vessel developed and built through the Agency’s Anti-Submarine Warfare...

Apr 14, 2016
Klein Mine Hunting Sonar Tested on Elbit Seagull USV
Klein Mine Hunting Sonar Tested on Elbit Seagull USV

Klein Marine Systems, a developer of sonar systems, has announced that its 5900 mine hunting side scan sonar system was...

Mar 24, 2016
Rolls-Royce Reveals Future Unmanned Vessel Control Centre
Rolls-Royce Reveals Future Unmanned Vessel Control Centre

Rolls-Royce has announced that it has unveiled its vision of land-based control centres for remotely monitoring and controlling future unmanned...

Mar 22, 2016
Liquid Robotics’ Wave Glider USVs Reach One Million Nautical Miles at Sea
Liquid Robotics’ Wave Glider USVs Reach One Million Nautical Miles at Sea

Liquid Robotics, a developer of wave and solar powered ocean robots, has announced that its fleets of Wave Gliders have...

Mar 09, 2016
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