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

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
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

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

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 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

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, 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

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

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

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 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

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
SeeByte’s latest C2 software now supporting Royal New Zealand Navy

The Royal New Zealand Navy (RNZN), a long-term user of SeeByte‘s SeeTrack v3, have upgraded to SeeTrack V4, the Command...

Jun 15, 2020
UK Royal Navy UUVs to Be Upgraded for Minehunting

L3Harris Technologies has received an order to provide upgrades to three of the company’s Iver3 AUVs (autonomous underwater vehicles), in...

Jun 09, 2020
Multi-Sensor Data Logger for UUVs Launched

Star-Oddi has introduced the Starmon Compass, a new subsea data logger that integrates multiple sensors in a compact titanium housing....

Jun 06, 2020
SeeByte Awarded Delivery Order to Extend US Navy Unmanned Capability

SeeByte has been awarded the first delivery order in the second option year of a five-year contract. It is awarded...

Jun 03, 2020
Submersible GNSS Systems Developed for UUVs

Modulus Technology has launched a new family of GNSS systems that can withstand submersion at depths of several thousand metres,...

May 22, 2020
BAE Systems Integrates New Capabilities into Riptide UUVs

Following the acquisition of Riptide Autonomous Solutions, BAE Systems has integrated next-generation capabilities into the Riptide unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs),...

May 18, 2020
Autonomous Underwater Glider Discovers Hidden Arctic Currents

Teledyne Marine‘s Slocum G3 autonomous underwater glider has been used to measured previously hidden patches of water between the Arctic...

May 15, 2020
Deep Trekker Receives CANIE Ontario Product Innovation Award

Deep Trekker has been selected to received a Product Innovation Award at the CANIE (Canada Innovation & Entrepreneurship) Ontario 2020...

May 14, 2020
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