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 Awarded French-UK Mine Countermeasures Contract

Thales has announced that it has been awarded the Maritime Mine Counter Measures (MMCM) contract by OCCAR, a defense equipment...

Mar 30, 2015
Modus Seabed Intervention Purchases Schilling Robotics ROV

Modus Seabed Intervention Ltd., a provider of integrated subsea project services, has announced that it has taken delivery of a...

Mar 30, 2015
UMass Dartmouth Research to Improve Unmanned Underwater Vehicle Teamwork

The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth has announced that Professor of Computer Science and Associate Dean of the College of Engineering, Dr....

Mar 27, 2015
OXIS Energy to Develop Lithium Sulfur Batteries for Marine Autonomous Systems

OXIS Energy Ltd., a developer of Lithium Sulfur battery technologies, has announced that it will be one of the main...

Mar 25, 2015
Saab Seaeye Demonstrates AUV 4D Geospatial Data Acquisition System

Saab Seaeye, a manufacturer of electric underwater vehicles, has demonstrated a 4D geo-spatial data acquisition system with real-time data visualisation...

Mar 13, 2015
University of Western Australia Explores Perth Canyon with ROV

The University of Western Australia’s Oceans Institute has announced that it has completed a successful two-week mission to Perth Canyon,...

Mar 13, 2015
ECA Group Announces First Sale of A18 Autonomous Underwater Vehicle

The ECA Group, a developer of robotics and automated systems solutions, has announced that it has made the first sale,...

Mar 09, 2015
Unmanned Underwater Vehicles Used to Locate Sunken WW2 Battleship

The Musashi, a Japanese WW2 vessel that was one of the heaviest and most powerfully armed battleships ever constructed, has...

Mar 04, 2015
SeeByte to Deliver UUV Demonstration System to UK MOD

SeeByte, a provider of software solutions for unmanned maritime systems, has announced that it has received an order from the...

Mar 04, 2015
SeeByte and VideoRay Successfully Test Software Upgrades to Sonar CoPilot System

SeeByte, a developer of smart software for unmanned maritime systems, in collaboration with VideoRay have successfully developed and tested improvements...

Feb 10, 2015
Edgetech Releases New AUV-Based Tri-Frequency Sonar System

EdgeTech, a provider of high-resolution sonar imaging systems and underwater technology, has released a new AUV-based sonar system that provides...

Feb 10, 2015
Tritech Chosen as Sonar Supplier for Swedish Navy ROVs

Tritech, a manufacturer of subsea technology products, has announced that it has been selected as the preferred supplier for sonar and...

Feb 10, 2015
US Navy Researchers Develop Bio-Inspired Autonomous Vehicles

Researchers at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) have designed and developed novel underwater propulsion, control, and sensing solutions for...

Feb 04, 2015
Advanced Navigation Releases Subsonus Underwater Acoustic Positioning System

Advanced Navigation has announced the release of their Subsonus Ultra-Short Baseline (USBL) underwater acoustic positioning system. Subsonus is a next...

Jan 26, 2015
Battelle’s HorizonVue Camera Demos 360-Degree Views from ROV

Battelle, an applied science and technology development company, has integrated its HorizonVue undersea camera with a Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV)...

Jan 13, 2015
Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Used to Study Deep-Sea Ecosystem

Scientists at the UK’s National Oceanography Centre (NOC) have used advanced photographic tools in an unmanned Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV)...

Jan 13, 2015
Phoenix Completes Upgrade to US Navy Deep Drone ROV

Phoenix International Holdings, Inc. has completed an upgrade of the U.S. Navy’s 8,000-foot depth capable remotely operated vehicle (ROV) Deep...

Jan 09, 2015
US Navy Tests New GhostSwimmer Unmanned Underwater Vehicle

The U.S. Navy has completed tests on the GhostSwimmer unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV) at Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek-Fort Story...

Dec 15, 2014
360Heros Announces 360-Degree Underwater Video Camera System

360Heros Inc., a developer of 360-degree video technology, has announced the release of its newest product, the 360Abyss, which is...

Nov 26, 2014
Unmanned Underwater Vehicle Provides 3-D Images of Antarctic Sea Ice

A National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded research team has successfully tested an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) that can produce high-resolution, three-dimensional...

Nov 26, 2014
Swedish Navy Orders Saab Seaeye Falcon ROVs

FMV, the Swedish Defence Material Administration, has ordered ten Falcon ROVs from Saab Seaeye. The vehicle was judged by FMV...

Nov 13, 2014
Engineered Syntactic Systems Provides Buoyancy Solutions for Bluefin Robotics AUVs

Engineered Syntactic Systems (ESS), a global supplier of syntactic solutions, has provided Bluefin Robotics with syntactic buoyancy systems for their...

Nov 06, 2014
Saab to Deliver ROV to US Underwater Hazardous Device Teams

Defense and security company Saab has won a contract to deliver a Water Borne Improvised Explosive Device Remotely Operated Vehicle...

Oct 31, 2014
Saab to Supply Ten ROVs to Swedish Navy

Defence and security company Saab has received an order from the Swedish Defence Materiel Administration (FMV) for ten ROV systems...

Sep 30, 2014
U.S. Coast Guard Research and Development Center Tests ROVs in the Arctic

Being a multi-mission agency with a diverse range of responsibilities, the Coast Guard relies on a wide variety of technologies...

Aug 26, 2014
UK MoD Allocates £9m for Maritime Autonomous Systems

The Ministry of Defence through the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory and in partnership with a number of associations and...

Aug 01, 2014
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