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

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, 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 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 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, 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

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, 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, 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
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