UUV / AUV / ROV News

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

iXblue USBL Selected by Subsea Solutions Provider

iXblue’s Gaps M7 USBL (Ultra Short Base Line) acoustic positioning and communication system has been purchased by integrated subsea and...

Sep 02, 2021
AUV Payloads for Remote Mine Identification

Voyis has authored the following article detailing how the company’s payloads for autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) have improved the detection...

Aug 27, 2021
AUV, USV & ROV in Live Unmanned Marine Vehicle Demonstration

Saab is leading a live demonstration as part of the EU-funded OCEAN2020 Defense Research Project being held in the Baltic...

Aug 26, 2021
Successful Life Extension Upgrade for Work-Class ROV

Forum Energy Technologies, Inc. (FET) has been awarded a contract to provide a life extension (Lext) upgrade on one of...

Aug 26, 2021
UUV Manufacturing & Assembly Center of Excellence Opened

General Dynamics Mission Systems (GDMS) has opened its Unmanned Undersea Vehicle (UUV) Manufacturing and Assembly Center of Excellence facility in Taunton,...

Aug 24, 2021
Boxfish Develops ROVs & AUVs for Inspections & Videography

Boxfish Research, a specialist developer of marine robotic systems with state-of-the-art underwater vision technologies, has partnered with Unmanned Systems Technology...

Aug 20, 2021
Charles River Analytics Develops Intelligent Technologies for UUVs & USVs

Charles River Analytics, a leading developer of intelligent technologies for UUVs (unmanned underwater vehicles), USVs (unmanned surface vessels) and other...

Aug 10, 2021
Autonomous Underwater Vehicles for U.S. Navy Sensing-Glider Program

Teledyne Brown Engineering, Inc. and sister company, Teledyne Webb Research, will perform the design, development, fabrication, production, test, and support...

Aug 05, 2021
Subsea Sensor Technologies for Automated Pipeline Inspection

Voyis, a developer of underwater laser scanners and imaging systems for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) and Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROVs),...

Jul 30, 2021
Article: Forward Looking Sonar and Autonomous Navigation

FarSounder has released an article exploring the integration of Argos  Forward Looking Sonar Systems with autonomous navigation control systems. The...

Jul 30, 2021
SPICE AUV equipped with Sonardyne Navigation Technology

Kawasaki Heavy Industries (KHI) has chosen a suite of subsea navigation, positioning and communications technologies from Sonardyne to navigate, track...

Jul 28, 2021
AUVs Gather Environmental Data for Wave Energy Project

Acoustics and underwater robotics company RTSYS has confirmed that its AUVs (autonomous underwater vehicles) have been deployed to collect environmental...

Jul 27, 2021
AUV Hydrogen-Powered Fuel Cell Module in Development

Cellula Robotics has been offered a contract extension to continue developing the hydrogen-powered fuel cell module for the Solus-LR Autonomous...

Jul 26, 2021
Voyis Develops Underwater Laser Scanners & Cameras for AUVs & ROVs

Voyis, a leading developer of underwater laser scanners and imaging systems that expand the capabilities of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs)...

Jul 19, 2021
ROV Developed for Underwater Inspections

Mariscope Meerestechnik has launched a powerful new Observation Class/Light Work Class ROV. Characterised by speed and manoeuvrability, the new ROV...

Jul 14, 2021
New Open Standard for Secure Underwater Communications

Sonardyne has released the following article about the company’s work with the UK Ministry of Defence’s Defence Science and Technology...

Jun 27, 2021
Royal New Zealand Navy Orders Four HII REMUS 300 UUVs

Designed for modularity and portability, the REMUS 300 can be reconfigured with a range of sensors and payloads to meet mission requirements

Jun 21, 2021
US Navy Knifefish UUVs Upgraded

General Dynamics Mission Systems has been awarded a contract by the U.S. Navy to retrofit five Block 0 Knifefish surface...

Jun 18, 2021
RTsys Acquires DVLs and Imaging Sonars for AUVs

RTsys has confirmed that it has acquired ten RDI Pathfinder DVLs (Doppler Velocity Logs) and five BlueView M900-2250-130 imaging sonars...

Jun 15, 2021
Cable Penetrators Developed for Underwater Robotics

Blue Robotics has announced the launch of the WetLink family of products for ROVs (remotely operated vehicles) and other UUVs...

Jun 08, 2021
SeaRaptor Deep-Sea AUVs Provided for Offshore Surveying

Teledyne Marine has provided two SeaRaptor 6000-metre rated AUVs (autonomous underwater vehicles) to subsea offshore services company Argeo of Norway....

Jun 07, 2021
Next-Generation ROV Launched

Blueye Robotics has launched the X3, the third model in the company’s Blueye range of ROVs (remotely operated vehicles). The...

Jun 04, 2021
Operational Capabilities of Maritime Autonomous Systems to be Enhanced

SeeByte and Sonardyne have been awarded funding by the UK Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) for phase 2 of...

Jun 02, 2021
Sonardyne Introduces Portable Shallow-Water USBL Tracking System

Sonardyne has launched a new portable configuration of its Micro-Ranger 2 shallow-water Ultra-Short BaseLine (USBL) system, providing everything in one...

May 28, 2021
Towed Sonar Upgraded with Automatic Target Recognition Software

SeeByte has entered into an agreement to integrate the company’s Automatic Target Recognition (ATR) System onto Kraken Robotic Systems’ KATFISH...

May 12, 2021
Blue Robotics Develops ROVs, Underwater Thrusters & Scanning Sonars

Blue Robotics, a leading developer of marine robotics systems and components, has partnered with Unmanned Systems Technology (“UST”) to demonstrate...

May 07, 2021
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