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

Unmanned Wave Glider Robot Tracks White Sharks in the Pacific

Liquid Robotics’ unmanned Wave Glider robot has been deployed off the US coast near San Francisco – the latest addition...

Aug 27, 2012
Sonardyne Underwater Tracking System on AUV Aids Search for Earhart Plane

Acoustic positioning technology from Sonardyne Inc, Houston, was selected to play a key role in a recent expedition aiming to...

Aug 24, 2012
Protonex Developing Fuel Cells for Underwater Unmanned Systems

Protonex Technology Corporation, a leading provider of advanced lightweight military power systems, announces exclusive collaboration on the development of oxygen...

Aug 07, 2012
Bluefin Robotics Hull Inspection Robot Successfully Completes Government Testing

Bluefin Robotics, a leading provider of Unmanned Underwater Vehicle (UUV) solutions for US Navy Programs of Record announced today that...

Aug 02, 2012
FuelCell Energy Wins $3.8m Contract for Unmanned Underwater Vehicle Power System

FuelCell Energy, Inc., a leading manufacturer of ultra-clean, efficient and reliable fuel cell power plants, has announced a $3.8 million...

Jul 26, 2012
Navy hosts international RoboSub Competition in San Diego

Teams from around the world gathered at the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Pacific for the 15th annual RoboSub...

Jul 24, 2012
SeaCat AUV Inspects 24 Kilometre Long Water Tunnel

In a mission lasting almost seven hours, an autonomous underwater vehicle made by ATLAS ELEKTRONIK, Germany, dived through a water...

Jul 23, 2012
University of Maryland Select Hydroid REMUS 600 AUV for Oceanographic Exploration

Hydroid, Inc., a subsidiary of Kongsberg Maritime and the leading manufacturer of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs), has announced that the...

Jul 19, 2012
U.S. Navy Deploys Unmanned Submarines to Clear Mines

The U.S. Navy has deployed a fleet of unmanned submarines to the Persian Gulf to help find and destroy sea...

Jul 17, 2012
Horn Point Laboratory Purchases Hydroid REMUS 600 AUV System

Hydroid, Inc., a subsidiary of Kongsberg Maritime and the leading manufacturer of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs), announces that the Horn...

Jul 16, 2012
Bluefin Completes Design Review for Knifefish SMCM UUV

Bluefin Robotics, a leading provider of Unmanned Underwater Vehicle (UUV) solutions for US Navy Programs of Record has announced that...

Jul 13, 2012
International Submarine Engineering To Supply HYSUB ROV to Japan

International Submarine Engineering Ltd is pleased to announce a contract to build another HYSUB Remotely Operated System (ROV) for SNK Ocean...

Jul 13, 2012
Pressure-Tolerant ROV Successfully Tested in the Deep Atlantic

A new pressure-tolerant ROV named Erno2, designed by Enitech GmbH (Rostock, Germany), has been successfully tested within the framework of...

Jul 06, 2012
KCF Technologies Celebrates ROV Smart Tether Milestone

KCF Technologies Celebrates Smart Tether Milestone – the sale of its 100th Smart Tether system. In 2004 KCF Technologies was...

Jul 02, 2012
Rolls-Royce Wins $3m Contract to Develop Canadian Unmanned Naval Vehicles

Rolls-Royce, the global power systems company, will lead a project to develop new technologies to support unmanned naval vehicle missions,...

Jun 27, 2012
Subsea Vision Targets FPSO Market with Saab Seaeye Cougar XT ROV

Subsea Vision has taken delivery of a Saab Seaeye Cougar XT Compact, the low profile powerful ROV specially designed for...

Jun 25, 2012
Echoscope® 3-D Imaging Sonar to be Used on New AUVs

The advanced patented Echoscope® 3-D imaging sonar, produced by Coda Octopus Group Inc., has been selected by Lockheed Martin for...

Jun 25, 2012
Liquid Robotics and Schlumberger Develop Autonomous Marine Vehicles

Liquid Robotics, Inc. and Schlumberger today announced the creation of Liquid Robotics Oil & Gas, a joint venture to develop...

Jun 22, 2012
U.S. Navy-backed Researchers Develop Hydrogen-Powered Unmanned Robot Jellyfish

Researchers at Virginia Tech, the Univ. of Texas at Dallas and several other schools are working together to develop robotic...

Jun 19, 2012
RV Tiburon Launches Spectre ROV Capable of Working Depths of up to 600m

RV Tiburon Inc. has launched a custom built Spectre ROV capable of working depths of up to 600Meter/2000Feet. The ROV is...

Jun 18, 2012
Japanese Ministry of Defense Purchases Hydroid REMUS 600 AUV

Hydroid, Inc., a subsidiary of Kongsberg Maritime and the leading manufacturer of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles – AUVs, announces that the...

Jun 13, 2012
Military Video Surveillance Market Worth US$8 Billion in 2012

The global military video surveillance systems market will be worth US$8.81 billion this year, as the development of advanced motion-imagery...

Jun 05, 2012
Tritech to Supply Sonar Systems for US Naval AUV Order

Tritech has been awarded a contract to supply German-based Atlas Elektronik GmbH, a leading systems supplier for naval electronics, with...

Jun 04, 2012
Lynntech to Develop Prototype Propulsion and Power System for Future Long-endurance AUVs

ARLINGTON, Va., 30 May 2012. Unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV) experts at the U.S. Office of Naval Research (ONR) in Arlington,...

Jun 04, 2012
Norwegian University of Technology and Science purchases REMUS 100 AUV

Hydroid, Inc., a subsidiary of Kongsberg Maritime and the leading manufacturer of autonomous underwater vehicles – AUVs, announces that the...

Jun 04, 2012
NexTech Wins Contract for Compact Energy System for UUV’s

NexTech Materials, Ltd. is pleased to announce that it has received a contract from the Office of Naval Research for...

Jun 01, 2012
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