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

360Heros Announces New Underwater Photography Solution

360Heros, a developer of virtual reality video technology, has announced the release of the 360Abyss v4, an electronic, automated underwater...

Jan 06, 2016
Hydroid Introduces New Launch and Recovery Capability for AUVs

Hydroid, Inc., a manufacturer of marine robotic systems, has announced the release of Line Capture Line Recovery (LCLR), a self-contained...

Dec 21, 2015
XPRIZE Announces $7M Shell Ocean Discovery Competition

Dr. Peter H. Diamandis, chairman and CEO of nonprofit organization XPRIZE, has announced the launch of the $7M Shell Ocean Discovery...

Dec 16, 2015
U.S. Navy Orders Bluefin Robotics’ AUVs to Improve Harbor and Force Protection

The U.S. Navy has recently awarded five delivery orders to Bluefin Robotics for vehicles that will increase the Navy’s capability...

Dec 15, 2015
SeaRobotics to Manufacture Lockheed Martin Deepwater AUV

Lockheed Martin has announced that it has selected SeaRobotics Corporation as the Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) for its Marlin Mk3...

Dec 14, 2015
Seatronics Successfully Demonstrates Predator ROV Elite System

Seatronics, a developer of marine electronics technologies, has announced that it has performed a successful demonstration of its Predator Remotely...

Dec 01, 2015
RE2 Wins US Navy Contract to Design Inflatable Underwater Robotic Arms

RE2, Inc., a developer of robotic manipulator arms, has announced that it has received a Phase I Small Business Innovation...

Oct 29, 2015
Royal Navy and US Navy Deploy Unmanned Minehunting Systems

The UK’s Royal Navy has announced that, along with its US counterparts, it has surveyed the sea bed for mines...

Oct 22, 2015
BEI Kimco Announces New Brushless DC Motors for Inspection Class ROVs

BEI Kimco, a manufacturer of high-performance rotary and linear motion components, has announced that it has developed several new brushless...

Sep 25, 2015
Boston Engineering Receives Grant to Commercialize BIOSwimmer UUV

Boston Engineering, an engineering consultancy firm, has announced that it has been awarded a $500,000 START Stage III grant from...

Sep 15, 2015
Queensland University of Technology Develops Starfish-Killing Underwater Drone

Australia’s Queensland University of Technology (QUT) has announced that it has developed the world’s first autonomous robot designed to seek...

Sep 09, 2015
LDUUV Unmanned Underwater Vehicle Program to Enter Next Development Stage

The US Naval Sea Systems Command has announced that it has received a risk-reduction decision approval, known as a Milestone...

Sep 04, 2015
US Navy Develop Underwater Wireless Charging for UUVs

The Navy is developing ways to recharge underwater unmanned vehicles (UUVs) using undersea wireless technology. The Navy uses UUVs for...

Aug 25, 2015
ASVs C-Enduro Deployed to Investigate Welsh Seas

The National Oceanography Centre (NOC) has begun the latest in a series of ambitious marine robotic vehicle trials off the...

Aug 24, 2015
RE2 to Develop Robotic Arms for Unmanned Underwater Vehicles

RE2, Inc., a developer of mobile manipulation systems, has announced that the company has been awarded a $2.7 Million contract...

Aug 20, 2015
Kraken Announces KATFISH Sonar Platform

Kraken Sonar Inc., a developer of Synthetic Aperture Sonar (SAS) technology, has announced the development of KATFISH (Kraken Active Tow...

Jul 23, 2015
CMRE Successfully Demonstrates Unmanned Systems for Maritime Surveillance

The NATO Centre for Maritime Research and Experimentation (CMRE) has announced that it has successfully demonstrated the use of unmanned...

Jul 20, 2015
ADLINK to Sponsor Cornell University RoboSub AUV Team

ADLINK Technology, a provider of cloud-based services and embedded systems, has announced its sponsorship of the Cornell University Autonomous Underwater...

Jul 15, 2015
NOC and European Partners to Develop Deep-Sea Unmanned Glider

The National Oceanography Centre (NOC) has announced that it has joined with 18 other partners to develop Europe’s first ultra-deep-sea...

Jul 08, 2015
Hydroid Announces AUV Training Courses

Hydroid, Inc., a subsidiary of Kongsberg Maritime and a manufacturer of autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs), has announced that it will...

Jun 10, 2015
Fugro AUV Locates Uncharted Shipwreck

Fugro, a provider of subsea, geotechnical and geosciences services, has announced that two of the firm’s vessels, currently searching the...

May 21, 2015
Kraken Sonar Announces AquaTrak Correlation Velocity Log

Kraken Sonar Inc., a manufacturer of Synthetic Aperture Sonar (SAS) technologies, has announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Kraken Sonar Systems...

Apr 20, 2015
Bluefin Robotics Delivers Unmanned Ship Hull Inspection Systems to U.S. Navy

Bluefin Robotics has successfully delivered new vehicles to the United States Navy that will increase the Navy’s capability to remotely...

Apr 20, 2015
Watch Live Video from NOAA’s ROV as it Explores the Caribbean Sea

Scientists aboard NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer have begun a series of 20 dives to investigate previously unseen depths of the...

Apr 13, 2015
Nissan 360-Degree View Technology to be Incorporated Into ROVs

Nissan has announced that it is providing its unique Around View Monitor (AVM) technology to the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth...

Apr 10, 2015
Osiris Completes ROV Work on Humber Gateway Wind Farm

Osiris, a supplier of subsea engineering services, has announced that it has successfully completed a long-term project in which it...

Apr 07, 2015
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