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-Frequency Sonars Selected for Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force UUVs
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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 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
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
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
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
Polish Navy Acquires Tethered Minehunting UUV
Polish Navy Acquires Tethered Minehunting UUV

Kraken Robotics has entered into a contract to provide minehunting systems to the Polish Navy. The company will deliver its...

Sep 10, 2020
Oceanbotics SRV-8 ROV Selected for Underwater Survey & Inspection
Oceanbotics SRV-8 ROV Selected for Underwater Survey & Inspection

RJE Oceanbotics’ SRV-8 ROV (remotely operated vehicle) has been selected by Norwegian geomatics firm Veseth AS Survey & Inspection to...

Aug 31, 2020
Semi-Autonomous ROV System Unveiled
Semi-Autonomous ROV System Unveiled

Deep Trekker has launched the REVOLUTION NAV, a new ROV (remotely operated vehicle) package providing advanced navigation and stabilization as...

Aug 22, 2020
SeeByte and MIT successfully combine autonomy engines for best of breed “system of systems”
SeeByte and MIT successfully combine autonomy engines for best of breed “system of systems”

SeeByte and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have successfully combined SeeByte’s Neptune autonomy engine with MIT’s MOOS-IVP during the...

Aug 18, 2020
Ocean Science AUV Equipped with iXblue Technology
Ocean Science AUV Equipped with iXblue Technology

iXblue’s subsea technologies have been selected by the French National Institute for Ocean Science (Ifremer) for integration into a new...

Aug 17, 2020
RJE Oceanbotics Develops Underwater ROVs for Research, Survey and Inspection
RJE Oceanbotics Develops Underwater ROVs for Research, Survey and Inspection

RJE Oceanbotics, a leading manufacturer of state-of-the-art underwater ROVs (remotely operated vehicles) for marine professionals, has partnered with Unmanned Systems...

Aug 14, 2020
Autonomous Underwater Glider Circumnavigates Atlantic Ocean
Autonomous Underwater Glider Circumnavigates Atlantic Ocean

Teledyne Marine’s Slocum G2 Glider autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) has completed a four-part circumnavigation of the Atlantic Ocean that lasted...

Jul 20, 2020
Polish Navy Acquires Teledyne Marine Gavia AUVs
Polish Navy Acquires Teledyne Marine Gavia AUVs

The Ministry of Defence of Poland has procured two additional Teledyne Marine Gavia Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) in order to...

Jun 29, 2020
ROV-Based Submarine Rescue System Developed
ROV-Based Submarine Rescue System Developed

Offshore solutions provider Saipem and undersea technology developer Drass have developed a rescue system for submarines based around a remotely...

Jun 17, 2020
FarSounder Selected for NAVSEA USV, UUV Project
FarSounder Selected for NAVSEA USV, UUV Project

FarSounder has been selected as a subcontractor on a research and development project led by GMATEK Inc. The project is...

Jun 17, 2020
Commercial Large Displacement UUV Build Completed
Commercial Large Displacement UUV Build Completed

Dive Technologies has completed the integration and build of the company’s first full-scale commercial large displacement (LD) unmanned undersea vehicle...

Jun 16, 2020
Advancing Unmanned Systems Through Strategic Collaboration UST works with major OEMs to foster collaboration and increase engagement with SMEs, to accelerate innovation and drive unmanned systems capabilities forward.