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

Thales Launches Pathmaster Unmanned Mine Countermeasures System

Thales has announced that it is launching Pathmaster, a fully configurable unmanned mine countermeasures system for naval forces seeking to...

Oct 17, 2016
ECA Group Develops Unmanned Mine Countermeasure Simulator

ECA Group has announced that its Naval Simulation teams have developed a functional simulator dedicated to Mine Countermeasure (MCM) operations....

Oct 16, 2016
ROV Used For Nuclear Reactor Decontamination

Diakont, a provider of services and tooling to the nuclear industry, has announced that it has begun to perform underwater...

Oct 13, 2016
General Dynamics Showcases Ship Hull Inspection AUV

General Dynamics Mission Systems has announced that it has featured the Bluefin Robotics hovering-autonomous underwater vehicle (H-AUV) at the OCEANS...

Sep 24, 2016
Fathom Announces Portable Underwater Exploration Drone

Fathom, an underwater drone technology startup, has released details of its Fathom One underwater drone. The Fathom One is designed to...

Sep 21, 2016
ECA Group Delivers Robotic Underwater Counter-Mine Systems

ECA Group has announced the delivery of several fully robotic underwater mine counter-measure systems to two navies, including that of...

Sep 21, 2016
Bluefin SandShark Micro-AUVs Successfully Launched From AUV

General Dynamics has announced that its Bluefin-21 autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) successfully launched multiple Bluefin SandShark micro-autonomous underwater vehicles (M-AUV)...

Sep 14, 2016
ECA Group Successfully Completes Espadon Demonstration USV Program

ECA Group has announced that, along with its partners DCNS and Thales, it has successfully completed the Espadon demonstration program...

Sep 09, 2016
Schmidt Ocean Institute Tests New ROV

The Schmidt Ocean Institute (SOI) has announced that it has completed a month of rigorous testing of its new Remotely...

Aug 29, 2016
Oceana and MARE Release Discoveries from Seafloor ROV Expedition

Oceana, an international ocean conservation organization, and Marine Applied Research & Exploration (MARE) have announced that they have released findings...

Aug 18, 2016
General Motors and U.S. Navy Collaborate on Fuel Cell-Powered UUVs

General Motors has announced that it is cooperating with the Office of Naval Research and the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory...

Jun 28, 2016
KRISO Selects Sonardyne BlueComm Optical Modem for AUV Communications

Sonardyne Asia Pte. Ltd. has supplied underwater communications equipment to the Korean Research Institute of Ships and Ocean Engineering (KRISO). The...

Jun 24, 2016
Sonardyne Maps Seabed in 3D with 2G Robotics Laser Scanner

2G Robotics, a developer of underwater laser scanning equipment, has announced that subsea technology company Sonardyne International Ltd has used...

Jun 22, 2016
iXblue Launches New Range of Inertial Navigation Systems for AUVs

iXblue, a developer of navigation, positioning and imaging solutions, has announced the launch of the company’s new range of Phins...

Jun 17, 2016
Tritech Gemini Sonar Integrated with SeeByte CoPilot ROV Software

SeeByte, a provider of smart software for unmanned maritime systems, and Tritech International Limited, a developer of imaging equipment for...

Jun 13, 2016
Corvus Lithium Ion Storage System Used in Boeing’s New UUV

Corvus Energy, a developer of lithium ion energy storage systems, has announced that one of its systems has been incporporated...

Jun 10, 2016
Saab to Provide Sweden With Advanced Anti-Submarine Warfare Training

Defence and security company Saab has announced that it has received an order from the Swedish Defence Material Administration (FMV)...

Jun 07, 2016
Saab Announces Unmanned Underwater Anti-IED Robot

Saab, a defense and security company, has announced that it has presented its new remotely operated vehicle (ROV), Sea Wasp,...

May 16, 2016
QinetiQ to Demonstrate Integration of Unmanned Systems into Royal Navy Operations

QinetiQ has announced that it has been awarded a £1m contract by the UK Ministry of Defence (MOD) to provide...

May 05, 2016
BAE to Manufacture Archerfish Unmanned Undersea Mine Neutraliser

BAE Systems has announced that it been awarded a £15.5 million contract by the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) to...

Apr 12, 2016
Deep Trekker releases new ROV Hybrid-Power System

Deep Trekker Inc., the world’s only manufacturer of completely portable remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) has released a new hybrid power system for...

Apr 07, 2016
Riptide Delivers Micro-UUVs to US Navy

Riptide Autonomous Solutions, a developer of unmanned maritime vehicles, has announced that it has completed the delivery of its first...

Mar 31, 2016
iXBlue Launches New Inertial Navigation System for ROVs

iXBlue, a developer of navigation, positioning and imaging solutions, has announced the launch of ROVINS NANO, a state-of-the-art inertial navigation...

Mar 15, 2016
Boeing Introduces Echo Voyager Unmanned Undersea Vehicle

Boeing has announced Echo Voyager, the company’s latest unmanned undersea vehicle (UUV), which can operate autonomously for months at a...

Mar 11, 2016
SeeByte Copilot Software Successfully Integrated with Normand Oceanic ROVs

SeeByte, a developer of smart software for unmanned maritime systems, has announced that Subsea 7, a subsea engineering services company,...

Mar 03, 2016
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