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

High-Altitude Variant of USV/UUV Navigation System Introduced

Sonardyne has released a new high-altitude variant of its SPRINT-Nav hybrid navigation system for unmanned surface vessels (USVs) and unmanned...

Feb 10, 2021
New Long-Endurance AUV Developed for Extended Missions

Kongsberg Maritime has launched the next generation of its advanced HUGIN Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV), the HUGIN Endurance. The new...

Feb 04, 2021
Sonardyne Technology Selected for USV & ROV Fleet

Sonardyne’s underwater positioning and communications technology has been selected by specialist geo-data firm Fugro to be incorporated into a global...

Jan 31, 2021
Drone & UGV Common Control System Joins Wave Relay Ecosystem

Tomahawk Robotics has joined the Wave Relay Ecosystem, an industry alliance of sensor and unmanned system companies that all utilize...

Jan 22, 2021
FarSounder Launches On-Line Training

FarSounder has announced the launch of their on-line training platform. The first training program to be released in the series...

Jan 18, 2021
Sonardyne Provides Technology Suite for Large-Displacement AUVs

Sonardyne navigation, tracking and control technologies have been selected by underwater robotics developer Dive Technologies for its large displacement DIVE-LD...

Jan 13, 2021
SeeByte Develops C2 & Collaborative Autonomy Software for Unmanned Systems

SeeByte, a leading developer of advanced software solutions for marine and maritime unmanned systems such as AUVs (Autonomous Underwater Vehicles),...

Jan 07, 2021
REMUS 100 UUVs Delivered to German Navy

Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII) has delivered a batch of new REMUS 100 unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs) to the German Navy....

Dec 29, 2020
Autonomous Profiling Floats to Monitor Greenland’s Coastal Glaciers

Teledyne Marine has provided NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) with three APEX (Autonomous Profiling Explorer) profiling floats, which will be...

Dec 24, 2020
Small ROV Breaks Depth Range Record

Boxfish Research has announced that its small, battery-operated remotely operated vehicle (ROV) has reached a record-breaking depth range during its...

Dec 04, 2020
Unmanned Mine Countermeasures System Ordered by British & French Navies

Thales has begun the production phase of its Maritime Mine Counter Measures (MMCM) program in order to deliver eight unmanned...

Dec 03, 2020
iXblue USBL Offered by Subsea Technology & Rentals

iXblue’s new Gaps M5 USBL has been selected by global rental company Subsea Technology & Rentals (STR) as an addition...

Dec 02, 2020
High-Frequency Sonars Selected for Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force UUVs

Thales and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) have entered into a contract to provide Thales’ SAMDIS High Frequency Synthetic Aperture Sonar...

Nov 27, 2020
Target UUVs Delivered to French Navy

RTSYS has delivered two of its new SEMA-MKII target UUVs (unmanned underwater vehicles) to the French Navy, under a contract...

Nov 25, 2020
Synthetic Aperture Sonar Integrated into Teledyne Gavia AUVs

Teledyne Gavia has integrated the Kraken Robotics MINSAS Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Sonar (SAS) into its AUVs (Autonomous Underwater Vehicles). The...

Nov 18, 2020
CTD Sensor Integrated onto Micro-AUV

RTSYS has integrated the RBRlegato3 CTD (conductivity, temperature & depth) sensor from oceanographic instrument developer RBR onto its NemoSens micro-AUV...

Nov 03, 2020
Navigation & Positioning Systems Selected for Minehunting UUVs & USVs

iXblue, along with partner ECA Group, has entered into a contract to provide navigation solutions, underwater positioning systems and obstacle...

Oct 20, 2020
New UUV-Based Pipeline Inspection Solution Developed

iXblue has partnered with tubular technology manufacturer Vallourec and the visual positioning startup FORSSEA Robotics to develop a new pipeline...

Oct 15, 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
University of Bergen Acquires Autonomous Underwater Gliders

Teledyne Webb Research, a business unit of Teledyne Marine, has provided the University of Bergen with a number of the...

Oct 06, 2020
Unmanned Systems Center of Excellence Under Construction

Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII) has broken ground on a new Unmanned Systems Center of Excellence in Hampton, Virginia. The 20-acre...

Sep 25, 2020
BAE Systems Launches Riptide Medium UUV

BAE Systems has unveiled the Riptide UUV-12, the company’s first medium unmanned undersea vehicle (UUV) offering and the first new...

Sep 23, 2020
Doppler Velocity Log Launched for Miniature UUVs

Teledyne RD Instruments has launched the new Wayfinder Doppler Velocity Log (DVL), designed to provide Doppler navigation capabilities for SWaP-C...

Sep 20, 2020
Multi-Aperture Sonar Integrated into Mine Countermeasures Software

  Sonardyne’s Solstice multi-aperture sonar has been integrated into software used by the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) to process data...

Sep 20, 2020
Automated AUV Launch and Recovery System Under Development

Thales Australia and Flinders University have entered into a partnership to investigate the development of an automated launch and recovery...

Sep 17, 2020
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