The latest UUV / AUV / ROV news for Autonomous and Unmanned Underwater Vehicles. Articles on unmanned submarines, subsea robotics, remotely operated vehicles, product launches and technological advances in UUV design and manufacture
Boxfish’s Luna ROV has been reviewed by a filmmaker from Black Whale Pictures, sharing insights into camera operation and safety features, delving into the ROV’s key components
Created for surface, subsurface, and crewed or uncrewed platforms, the new navigation and obstacle avoidance forward-looking sonar from Wavefront has made its first batch shipment
RTsys has supplied its COMET300 AUV for Saudi Arabia, designed to play a crucial role in preserving marine biodiversity with underwater surveys, habitat mapping, and environmental monitoring
The OASIS (Over-horizon Awareness of Seafloor Imaging Surveys) aims to address the limitations of existing ocean monitoring methods, which often rely on costly crewed surface vessels and tethered remotely operated vehicles
Exail, working with RTsys and ABYSSA through the CARMA project, will produce an integrated deep-water AUV swarming solution for subsea mapping and surveying
The newly launched Advanced Swimmer Delivery Vehicles from Robosys will be upgraded in a phased roll-out to feature an autonomous mode, allowing autonomous self-navigation
Exail, with its autonomous systems and intelligent platforms, has been selected for the European Extended Mine Counter Measures project to establish a European capacity in mine warfare
The extra large Manta Ray UUV from DARPA and Northrop Grumman aims to advance capabilities with improved efficiency and autonomy, able to act without human supervision
Teledyne Marine’s ECHOTRAC E20 has achieved 250 sales across North and South America, providing the continents with a compact, portable, and reliable echosounder solution
SubC Imaging’s Rayon camera and DVR technology has been integrated into drop camera systems from Ashtead Technology, providing clarity & reliability in demanding subsea environments
The Greensea IQ-Nippon Kaiyo partnership aims to expand the reach of Greensea's Bayonet autonomous underwater ground vehicles (AUGV) product line in the Japanese market
Chance Maritime and HydroTerra are providing autonomous vehicle data collection services, aiming to deliver 670 nautical miles of bathymetric data to the Louisiana CPRA
SubC Imaging’s MantaRay Mk2 Parallel Lasers, designed for ROV and subsea systems, and Skate Mk2 Laser, designed for precision subsea applications, are now FDA compliant,
SEAMOR’s ROVs are compatible with a broad variety of accessories, but the company has released a list of its own line of tools and add-ons to enhance the ROVs’ operational flexibility
Greensea IQ will expand the reach of its Bayonet Autonomous Underwater Ground Vehicles (AUGVs) in Australia and New Zealand through a partnership with BlueZone Group
SEAMOR has partnered with Voyis to incorporate the Voyis Discovery Stereo Camera into the SEAMOR Mako ROV, aiming to provide enhanced inspection, recovery and surveying capabilities for the aquaculture and hydroelectric industries
Valeport's product portfolio is ideal for environmental monitoring, water survey, offshore energy, construction and engineering, scientific research and more
Cellula Robotics’ newly launched Vigilus is a submersible surveillance array comprising of acoustically-meshed environmental sensor nodes that form a network of listening stations
The JETTE robotic controlled propulsion system from Tiburon Subsea draws on dual fore and aft thrusters to outfit unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs) with increased speed, variable controls and maneuverability
The U.S. Navy’s Maritime Expeditionary Standoff Response (MESR) will receive the MK20 Defender from VideoRay, a highly robust, man-portable, expeditionary ROV
Greensea IQ’s EverClean, the subscription-based autonomous in-water hull cleaning robot, has been confirmed by Chugoku Marine Paints to not damage silicone hull coatings
Greenroom Robotics and Bureau Veritas’ new MoU aims to promote the understanding of maritime robotics, autonomous navigation, situational awareness, and operations management
The new Quantum EV electric work class ROV from SMD reached a top forward speed of 4.5 knots, among other maneuverability and bollard pull tests, in successful full-power testing
Kraken’s K3 SCOUT USV, K4 MANTA USSV and K5 KRAKEN Gunship are set to be outfitted with BlueHalo’s autonomous innovations and C-UAS systems in order to develop next-generation uncrewed vessels
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