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

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
ECA Group to Develop Ultra-Deep AUV for Survey and Inspection
ECA Group to Develop Ultra-Deep AUV for Survey and Inspection

The ECA Group has been selected by Ifremer to develop an ultra-deep Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV), capable of reaching 6000...

Jan 27, 2017
General Dynamics Announces Availability of Bluefin SandShark AUV
General Dynamics Announces Availability of Bluefin SandShark AUV

General Dynamics Mission Systems has announced the availability of the company’s new Bluefin SandShark autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV). Designed for...

Jan 12, 2017
US Navy Develops New UUV Mission Software Framework
US Navy Develops New UUV Mission Software Framework

Scientists and engineers at the U.S. Navy’s Naval Surface Warfare Center Panama City Division have announced that they have developed...

Dec 28, 2016
Schmidt Ocean Institute’s New ROV Completes First Expedition
Schmidt Ocean Institute’s New ROV Completes First Expedition

The Schmidt Ocean Institute has announced that a team of geologists, chemists and biologists aboard its research vessel Falkor have...

Dec 23, 2016
ECA Group Equips French Navy AUVs with Long-Range Communications
ECA Group Equips French Navy AUVs with Long-Range Communications

ECA Group has announced that the company is to update six of the French Navy’s A9-M Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs)...

Dec 19, 2016
NASA JPL Researches Artificial Intelligence for Submersible Drones
NASA JPL Researches Artificial Intelligence for Submersible Drones

  NASA has announced that a team of researchers from its Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL) and other institutions recently visited...

Dec 18, 2016
ROV Captures New Images of USS Arizona
ROV Captures New Images of USS Arizona

Marine Imaging Technologies (MITech), a developer of underwater optical imaging platforms, has announced that its latest remotely operated vehicle (ROV),...

Nov 24, 2016
Saab Acquires Mine Disposal Systems Manufacturer Nordic Defence Industries
Saab Acquires Mine Disposal Systems Manufacturer Nordic Defence Industries

Saab has announced that it has acquired the Danish naval company Nordic Defence Industries (NDI). NDI designs and manufactures mine...

Oct 19, 2016
Thales Launches Pathmaster Unmanned Mine Countermeasures System
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 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
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 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 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 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
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 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
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 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 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
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
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