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

ECA Group Demonstrates Simultaneous MCM Drone Operation to Belgian Navy
ECA Group Demonstrates Simultaneous MCM Drone Operation to Belgian Navy

ECA Group has announced that it has demonstrated the capability to simultaneously deploy its AUVs (Autonomous Underwater Vehicles), USVs (Unmanned...

Jul 06, 2017
Kraken Uses ThunderFish Alpha AUV as Technology Demonstrator Platform
Kraken Uses ThunderFish Alpha AUV as Technology Demonstrator Platform

Kraken Sonar has announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Kraken Sonar Systems, has formally taken delivery of ThunderFish Alpha – a...

Jun 27, 2017
Kongsberg to Develop Autonomous Underwater Glider Systems
Kongsberg to Develop Autonomous Underwater Glider Systems

Kongsberg Underwater Technology has announced that it has successfully completed negotiations with CoMotion, the University of Washington’s collaborative innovation hub,...

Jun 27, 2017
New Underwater Dynamic Laser Mapping Solution Will Speed Up Surveys
New Underwater Dynamic Laser Mapping Solution Will Speed Up Surveys

2G Robotics and Sonardyne International have announced that the two companies have entered into a formal collaboration agreement. The two...

Jun 24, 2017
Teledyne Introduces Ultra-Compact Pathfinder Doppler Velocity Log for ROVs
Teledyne Introduces Ultra-Compact Pathfinder Doppler Velocity Log for ROVs

Teledyne RD Instruments (TRDI) has announced the official launch of its ultra-compact 600 kHz Pathfinder Doppler Velocity Log (DVL). The...

Jun 19, 2017
Boeing and Huntington Ingalls to Develop UUVs for U.S. Navy
Boeing and Huntington Ingalls to Develop UUVs for U.S. Navy

Boeing and Huntington Ingalls Industries have announced that the two firms are teaming on the design and production of Unmanned...

Jun 14, 2017
Kraken to Provide AquaPix Sonar for AUVs
Kraken to Provide AquaPix Sonar for AUVs

Kraken Sonar Inc. has announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Kraken Sonar Systems Inc., has been awarded a repeat contract valued...

Jun 07, 2017
Robosea Unveils Unmanned Underwater Vehicle with Bionics Technology
Robosea Unveils Unmanned Underwater Vehicle with Bionics Technology

Robosea has announced the launch of BIKI, a new unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV) designed with advanced bionics technology. BIKI can...

Jun 06, 2017
Teledyne Marine Launches New ROV Control Platform
Teledyne Marine Launches New ROV Control Platform

Teledyne Marine has announced that, in partnership with Greensea Systems, it has developed a new remotely operated vehicle (ROV) control...

May 06, 2017
New Unmanned Undersea Robot Hunts Invasive Lionfish
New Unmanned Undersea Robot Hunts Invasive Lionfish

Non-profit organization Robots in Service of the Environment (RSE) has announced the development of the Guardian LF1, an unmanned undersea...

Apr 19, 2017
General Atomics Provides Lithium-Ion Battery for Department of Defense UUV
General Atomics Provides Lithium-Ion Battery for Department of Defense UUV

General Atomics has announced that its Electromagnetic Systems group (GA-EMS) has been awarded a contract to provide its Lithium-ion Fault...

Apr 18, 2017
New Foam Buoyancy Solution Developed for SuBastian ROV
New Foam Buoyancy Solution Developed for SuBastian ROV

Trelleborg, a developer of polymer solutions, has announced that its applied technologies division has engineered and manufactured a custom syntactic...

Apr 18, 2017
Diakont Provides Underwater Robotic Nuclear Decontamination Service
Diakont Provides Underwater Robotic Nuclear Decontamination Service

Diakont, a provider of refueling outage tooling and services to the nuclear industry, has announced that it has successfully provided...

Apr 11, 2017
INS-Aided Subsea LiDAR Successfully Collects Mapping Data at Depth
INS-Aided Subsea LiDAR Successfully Collects Mapping Data at Depth

3D at Depth, a provider of advanced subsea LiDAR systems and solutions, has announced the success of a recent trial...

Apr 06, 2017
Sparton AHRS Integrated onto Riptide Micro-UUV
Sparton AHRS Integrated onto Riptide Micro-UUV

Sparton Corporation has announced the integration of its Attitude Heading Reference System (AHRS) products onto Riptide Autonomous Solutions’ unmanned undersea...

Apr 04, 2017
Riptide Autonomous Solutions Unveils New Unmanned Underwater Vehicles
Riptide Autonomous Solutions Unveils New Unmanned Underwater Vehicles

Riptide Autonomous Solutions, a developer of unmanned undersea vehicles (UUVs), has announced two new platform offerings to complement their initial...

Mar 31, 2017
Aerojet Rocketdyne to Develop Power Management System for US Navy UUVs
Aerojet Rocketdyne to Develop Power Management System for US Navy UUVs

Aerojet Rocketdyne has announced that it has received a $1.6 million contract from the U.S. Navy to mature the demonstration...

Mar 31, 2017
Kraken Develops 3D Underwater Laser Imaging System for AUVs
Kraken Develops 3D Underwater Laser Imaging System for AUVs

Kraken Sonar has announced that its subsidiary, Kraken Robotik GmbH, will introduce its new SeaVision system at the Ocean Business...

Mar 28, 2017
Norway Selects Kongsberg’s HUGIN AUV for Mine Hunting Missions
Norway Selects Kongsberg’s HUGIN AUV for Mine Hunting Missions

Kongsberg Maritime has announced that it has signed a contract with the Norwegian Defence Materiel Agency (NDMA) for delivery of...

Mar 28, 2017
Kraken KATFISH Sonar Successfully Completes Phase One Sea Trials
Kraken KATFISH Sonar Successfully Completes Phase One Sea Trials

Kraken Sonar has announced that it has successfully completed phase one sea trials of its KATFISH towed Synthetic Aperture Sonar...

Mar 25, 2017
WFS Technologies and Seatronics Demonstrate Drone-to-ROV Wireless Communications
WFS Technologies and Seatronics Demonstrate Drone-to-ROV Wireless Communications

WFS Technologies, a developer of subsea wireless automation, and marine rental equipment specialist Seatronics Inc. have announced that the two...

Mar 22, 2017
General Dynamics Successfully Completes Evaluation of Knifefish UUV
General Dynamics Successfully Completes Evaluation of Knifefish UUV

General Dynamics Mission Systems has announced that it has successfully completed a comprehensive evaluation of Knifefish, an autonomous surface mine...

Mar 21, 2017
National Oceanography Centre AUV Prepares for First Antarctic Mission
National Oceanography Centre AUV Prepares for First Antarctic Mission

A team of ocean scientists from the University of Southampton and British Antarctic Survey (BAS), alongside engineers from the National...

Mar 14, 2017
ECA Group Announces New 300m Rated Inspection-Class ROV
ECA Group Announces New 300m Rated Inspection-Class ROV

ECA Group has announced the launch of the H300-V, the company’s latest Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV). Announced at the Underwater...

Feb 25, 2017
Deep Ocean Engineering Announces Phantom L6 ROV
Deep Ocean Engineering Announces Phantom L6 ROV

Deep Ocean Engineering has announced the Phantom L6, the company’s newest addition to the Phantom series of inspection-class ROVs. The...

Feb 23, 2017
Saab Seaeye Upgrades Falcon ROV
Saab Seaeye Upgrades Falcon ROV

  Saab Seaeye has announced that it has upgraded its Falcon underwater electric robotic vehicle. The Falcon’s smart intelligent control...

Feb 13, 2017
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