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

Dynautics Unveils Modular and Scalable AUV

Dynautics Ltd, a developer of intelligent marine electronics for unmanned vessels, has announced the launch of a modular and scalable...

Apr 03, 2019
Subsea Inspection ROV Deployed and Operated by USV

L3 Technologies has announced the successful demonstration of an Autonomous Surface Vessel (ASV) deploying, operating and recovering a Remotely Operated...

Apr 03, 2019
ECA Group Introduces Integrated Unmanned Counter-Mine System

ECA Group has announced that it has developed UMIS Containerised, an integrated stand-alone mine counter-measures (MCM) solution, consisting of multiple...

Mar 29, 2019
New Prototype Lionfish-Capturing UUV Unveiled

Nonprofit organization Robots in Service of the Environment (RSE) has announced the RSE Guardian LF1 Mark 3 prototype, an unmanned...

Mar 14, 2019
AUV Communication Nodes to be Developed for Deepwater Monitoring

Sonardyne International has announced that it has agreed a partnership with Shell Brasil and Brazilian research institute Senai-Cimatec to develop...

Mar 11, 2019
Acoustic Positioning System Tracks Aquaculture ROVs

Sonardyne International has announced that joint trials conducted with Norwegian research institute SINTEF Ocean have proven the ability for an...

Mar 01, 2019
Teledyne Marine Delivers Unmanned Underwater Vehicles to UAE Navy

Teledyne Marine has announced that, through local partner Trust International Group (Abu Dhabi), it has delivered unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs)...

Feb 21, 2019
Ocean Discovery XPRIZE Finalists Conduct Final Field Tests

XPRIZE has announced that the three finalist teams competing for the $1M Bonus Prize, sponsored by the National Oceanic and...

Feb 20, 2019
Gigabit Ethernet Camera Range Released for ROVs

Teledyne Marine has announced the launch of a new range of GigE underwater cameras for ROVs (Remotely Operated Vehicles), with...

Feb 09, 2019
Rocket-Deployed Weather Instruments Launched from USV

Scientists from the Institute of Atmospheric Physics at the Chinese Academy of Sciences have announced that they have launched a...

Feb 08, 2019
Teledyne Gavia to Launch New 6000m Rated AUV

Teledyne Gavia, a developer of autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs), has announced that the company will formally introduce its new 6000...

Feb 05, 2019
Shipboard Integration Testing of MCM UUV and USV Completed

The Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) has announced that the Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) Mission Module Program has successfully completed...

Jan 26, 2019
PowerVision Unveils New Marine Drone

PowerVision Technology Group, a developer of UAV (unmanned aerial vehicles), has extended its drone offerings to include marine vessels PowerDolphin,...

Jan 07, 2019
Long-Range AUV Developed for Oil Spill Mapping

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has announced that it has developed a long-range autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) to...

Dec 31, 2018
UUV Surveys Reveal New Hydrothermal Vents

Schmidt Ocean Institute has announced that a new hydrothermal vent field has been discovered during an expedition aboard the Institute’s...

Dec 30, 2018
Thales and MSubs to Develop Maritime Autonomous Systems

Thales has announced that it has signed an agreement with MSubs Ltd. for the two firms to collaborate on the...

Dec 24, 2018
U.S. Marine Corps Selects L3 OceanServer UUV

L3 OceanServer, a developer of autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs), has announced that it has been awarded a contract to support...

Dec 13, 2018
Persistent Autonomous Underwater Tracking System Under Development

GeoSpectrum Technologies (GTI) has announced that it has received funding from the Government of Canada under the Innovation for Defence...

Dec 05, 2018
Micro-AUVs Trialled by Royal Navy

Planet Ocean has announced that its ecoSUB AUV (Autonomous Underwater Vehicle) has been successfully trialled in the North Sea off...

Dec 05, 2018
Sonardyne Releases New Unified Software Solution for UUV Surveys

Sonardyne International Ltd., an underwater positioning and navigation specialist, has announced that it has launched a new software platform that...

Nov 30, 2018
Japanese Marine-Earth Science Agency to use AUV for Deep Sea Resource Exploration

Hydroid, Inc., a manufacturer of autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs), has announced that it has received an order for a New...

Nov 25, 2018
AUV Fleet Locates Missing Submarine

Ocean Infinity, a seabed exploration company, has announced that it has used a fleet of five Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs)...

Nov 23, 2018
Collaborative Project to Improve Autonomous Navigation for AUVs

Sonardyne International Ltd. has announced that it has initiated a collaborative project to drive a major step change in ocean...

Nov 22, 2018
Long Range UUV Under Development for Canadian DND

Cellula Robotics has announced that it has been given the approval to proceed with phase 3 of a contract by...

Nov 14, 2018
New AUV Launch and Recovery System Extends Surveying Capabilities

UTEC, a global subsea surveying company, has announced that it has successfully commissioned its new launch and recovery system (LARS)...

Oct 30, 2018
GDMS Launches Redesigned Bluefin-9 AUV

General Dynamics Mission Systems has announced the release of the new Bluefin-9 autonomous unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV) at Oceans 2018...

Oct 24, 2018
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