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
Greensea IQ has secured a contract extension with the DIU and the U.S. Navy to advance its EOD Edge technology for VideoRay Defender ROVs, incorporating AI and autonomy for enhanced maritime operations
YellowScan’s Navigator bathymetric system has been integrated into Xer Technologies’ drones, creating a vital solution for coastal management, environmental monitoring, and more
SubC Imaging’s Rayfin cameras and DVR technology now integrate seamlessly with BIIGLE, allowing users to enhance their workflows through advanced image annotation and data management
Teledyne Marine Gavia has more than doubled the size of its manufacturing facility in Kopavogur, Iceland, and significantly increased its staff in engineering, manufacturing, and support roles
Xer Technologies’ drones have integrated YellowScan’s Navigator bathymetric system, forming a crucial solution for environmental monitoring, coastal management, and more
Greensea IQ has launched the IQNS and IQNS Mini, two new edge processing systems derived from the GS4 inertial navigation system (INS), designed for unmanned underwater robotics
The ecoSUBm25-Science AUV from ecoSUB Robotics has completed a spiral behavior trial to provide vertical profiling of the water column down to 2,000m depth, and back again
Meller Optics has unveiled its custom made sapphire windows for AUVs and UUVs, featuring Mohs 9 hardness to withstand fast moving particles and deep water pressure to 10,000 psi
Boxfish’s Luna ROV has been reviewed by a filmmaker from Black Whale Pictures, sharing insights into camera operation and safety features, delving into the ROV’s key components
Created for surface, subsurface, and crewed or uncrewed platforms, the new navigation and obstacle avoidance forward-looking sonar from Wavefront has made its first batch shipment
RTsys has supplied its COMET300 AUV for Saudi Arabia, designed to play a crucial role in preserving marine biodiversity with underwater surveys, habitat mapping, and environmental monitoring
The OASIS (Over-horizon Awareness of Seafloor Imaging Surveys) aims to address the limitations of existing ocean monitoring methods, which often rely on costly crewed surface vessels and tethered remotely operated vehicles
Exail, working with RTsys and ABYSSA through the CARMA project, will produce an integrated deep-water AUV swarming solution for subsea mapping and surveying
The newly launched Advanced Swimmer Delivery Vehicles from Robosys will be upgraded in a phased roll-out to feature an autonomous mode, allowing autonomous self-navigation
Exail, with its autonomous systems and intelligent platforms, has been selected for the European Extended Mine Counter Measures project to establish a European capacity in mine warfare
The extra large Manta Ray UUV from DARPA and Northrop Grumman aims to advance capabilities with improved efficiency and autonomy, able to act without human supervision
Teledyne Marine’s ECHOTRAC E20 has achieved 250 sales across North and South America, providing the continents with a compact, portable, and reliable echosounder solution
SubC Imaging’s Rayon camera and DVR technology has been integrated into drop camera systems from Ashtead Technology, providing clarity & reliability in demanding subsea environments
The Greensea IQ-Nippon Kaiyo partnership aims to expand the reach of Greensea's Bayonet autonomous underwater ground vehicles (AUGV) product line in the Japanese market
Chance Maritime and HydroTerra are providing autonomous vehicle data collection services, aiming to deliver 670 nautical miles of bathymetric data to the Louisiana CPRA
SubC Imaging’s MantaRay Mk2 Parallel Lasers, designed for ROV and subsea systems, and Skate Mk2 Laser, designed for precision subsea applications, are now FDA compliant,
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