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

Velodyne to Discuss the Future of Real-Time, 3D Vision for Robots at RoboBusiness

At the 9th Annual RoboBusiness Conference, Velodyne Acoustics Inc.’s LiDAR division will exhibit the latest real-time, 3D LiDAR vision technology...

Oct 22, 2013
Bluefin Acquires SeeByte, Adds New Software Capabilities to Maritime Robotics Portfolio

Bluefin Robotics, a leading provider of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs), has acquired SeeByte, Ltd., a leading provider of autonomous platform...

Oct 08, 2013
Roboteq Launches I/O Expansion Card for Raspberry PI

Roboteq, Inc. has introduced the most versatile and capable I/O expansion card ever made for the ultra-popular Raspberry PI Single...

Oct 08, 2013
[Video] Thales, ASV & SAAB Complete Unmanned Mine Countermeasures Exercise

During a recent exercise, Thales, Autonomous Surface Vehicles (ASV) and SAAB successfully demonstrated the capabilities of the Halcyon Unmanned Surface...

Oct 01, 2013
AUVSI 2014 Call for Technical Papers is Now Open

AUVSI’s Unmanned Systems 2014, being held 12-15 May in Orlando, Fla., will highlight the most important technological advancements, cutting edge...

Oct 01, 2013
QinetiQ Opens UK’s First Maritime Autonomy Centre

QinetiQ has launched a Maritime Autonomy Centre (QMAC), providing an extensive range of equipment and software to support the entire...

Sep 13, 2013
ASV’s C-Stat 2 completes final acceptance with Tohoku University

In early August 2013 a team from ASV oversaw the successful completion of the C-Stat 2 acceptance trials for Tohoku University around...

Sep 02, 2013
ASV recruits experts from the Navy and Oceanographic world

With more vehicles in build at any one time than ever before, unmanned marine system producer Autonomous Surface Vehicles (ASV)...

Sep 01, 2013
AUVSI 2013 – the UST Round-Up

More than 8,100 attendees and nearly 600 exhibitors attended the annual Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI) convention last...

Aug 22, 2013
AUVSI 2013: MSHIPCO Unveils Mistral USV

MSHIPCO, LLC, developer of the Stiletto Maritime Platform, has launched the Mistral USV. Smaller than its predecessor but with the...

Aug 14, 2013
Epson Announces Two New Inertial Measurement Units For Demanding Unmanned And Industrial Applications

Epson Electronics America (EEA) has developed two new products for its inertial measurement unit (IMU) lineup. The new products, the...

Jul 30, 2013
Spectracom, Geodetics Collaborate for Rugged PNT Equipment

Spectracom, a business of the Orolia Group and a leading provider of GNSS signal management solutions, announced today a strategic...

Jul 23, 2013
ASV Unmanned Marine Systems to use SeeByte’s SeeTrack Military Software

SeeByte, the global leader in creating smart software for unmanned maritime systems and ASV the world leading manufacturer of Autonomous...

Jul 22, 2013
DARPA Develops Novel Hollow-Core Optical Fiber for High-Power Military Sensors

The intensity of light that propagates through glass optical fiber is fundamentally limited by the glass itself. A novel fiber...

Jul 22, 2013
Are You Exhibiting at AUVSI 2013?

If you’re exhibiting at AUVSI’s Unmanned Systems in Washington next month and would like us to stop by your booth...

Jul 18, 2013
ASV to Build USV under SBRI Funding

Autonomous Surface Vehicles (ASV) won the second phase of the recent SBRI competition to develop a Long Endurance Marine Unmanned...

Jul 01, 2013
GTRI Agile Aperture Antenna Tested on Autonomous Ocean Vehicle

Antenna technology originally developed to quickly send and receive information through a software-defined military radio may soon be used to...

Jun 27, 2013
Navy Selects Northrop Grumman’s Sonar System for Minehunting USV

Northrop Grumman Corporation has been awarded a contract to support the U.S. Navy’s integration onto an unmanned surface vehicle (USV)...

Jun 10, 2013
Steve Dittman Joins Marotta Controls as Director of Business Development, Marine Systems

Steve Dittman has joined the Marotta Controls team as Director of Business Development, Marine Systems. Steve Dittman, a Professional Engineer...

May 22, 2013
Liquid Robotics Receives Guinness World Record for Longest Unmanned ASV Journey

Liquid Robotics®, an ocean data services provider and developer of the Wave Glider®, announced it has been officially awarded the...

May 17, 2013
Clearpath Robotics Provides Kingfisher USVs for MIT Maritime Autonomy Competition

Clearpath Robotics is the official hardware sponsor for the MOOS Development and Applications Working Group (MOOS-DAWG) Autonomy Competition, to be...

May 01, 2013
Clearpath Robotics Wins Silver Edison Award for Kingfisher M200 Unmanned Surface Vessel

The Edison Awards, celebrating 26 years of honoring the best in innovation and excellence in the development of new products...

Apr 26, 2013
Charles River Analytics Develops Traffic Awareness Component for DARPA’s Unmanned ASW Platform

Charles River Analytics, a developer of intelligent systems solutions, announces a new start to develop a maritime traffic awareness component...

Apr 10, 2013
U.S. Navy Unveils Laboratory for Autonomous Systems Research (LASR)

Scientists based in the nation’s capital are stepping into the desert and rainforest to run experiments on autonomous systems without having to...

Apr 08, 2013
Clearpath Robotics’ Kingfisher USV Named Edison Awards Finalist

Clearpath Robotics has been named a 2013 Award Finalist by the internationally renowned Edison Awards. The Kingfisher Remote Survey System...

Apr 02, 2013
DARPA’s ACTUV Program to use Raytheon’s 5th Generation Hull Mounted Sonar

Raytheon Company has been awarded a sub-contract from Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) to deliver its first 5th generation medium...

Mar 12, 2013
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