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

QinetiQ to Demonstrate Integration of Unmanned Systems into Royal Navy Operations
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 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 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 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 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 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 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
General Dynamics Mission Systems Acquires Bluefin Robotics
General Dynamics Mission Systems Acquires Bluefin Robotics

General Dynamics Mission Systems has announced that it has acquired Bluefin Robotics, a manufacturer of unmanned undersea vehicles (UUVs) that...

Mar 03, 2016
Battelle to Unveil HorizonVue 360-Degree Subsea Video System
Battelle to Unveil HorizonVue 360-Degree Subsea Video System

Battelle, a developer of undersea technology for the oil and gas and defense markets, has announced that it will demonstrate...

Mar 01, 2016
Deep Trekker Announces New Hybrid Power ROV System
Deep Trekker Announces New Hybrid Power ROV System

Deep Trekker Inc., a manufacturer of portable remotely operated vehicles (ROVs), has announced the launch of a new hybrid-power ROV....

Feb 25, 2016
Kraken Sonar Receives Funding from Canada to Develop KATFISH Prototype Platform
Kraken Sonar Receives Funding from Canada to Develop KATFISH Prototype Platform

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

Feb 10, 2016
Impact Subsea Launches New ISD4000 Depth & Temperature Sensor
Impact Subsea Launches New ISD4000 Depth & Temperature Sensor

Impact Subsea, a developer of underwater sensing solutions, has announced the launch of the ISD4000 – the company’s new survey...

Feb 03, 2016
US Navy Tests Software Architecture with Unmanned Undersea Vehicle
US Navy Tests Software Architecture with Unmanned Undersea Vehicle

The US Navy has announced that it has tested its newly developed Common Control System (CCS) software architecture with a...

Jan 29, 2016
SeeByte Founder Awarded CBE
SeeByte Founder Awarded CBE

SeeByte, a leading supplier of software for underwater vehicles, are pleased to announce that SeeByte founding member, Professor David Lane, has...

Jan 18, 2016
360Heros Announces New Underwater Photography Solution
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 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
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
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
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 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 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
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 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 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
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
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