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Oceaneering Expands Vision Platform with Subsea Module for Engineering‑Grade Integrity Visualization

Oceaneering International, Inc. announced Vision Subsea, a new module within the cloud‑based Vision 3D data visualization software platform developed by GDi, an Oceaneering company. The module presents engineering-grade point cloud data generated during ROV operations, giving engineers a measurable, contextual view of subsea asset integrity to better enable identification of anomaly location, dimensional checks, and intervention planning.The module addresses common integrity challenges from fragmented drawings and reports to video lacking spatial context, by consolidating inspection evidence into

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Ocean Geophysics Teams Up for EdgeTech on Seabed Data Processing

launched eBOSS (Enhanced Buried Object Scanning System).The collaboration, established as a non-exclusive partnership, combines EdgeTech’s decades of hardware innovation with Ocean Geophysics’ expertise in geophysical data processing and interpretation.The result is a purpose-built software platform capable of processing, visualizing, and reporting data acquired by the eBOSS system with extraordinary clarity and efficiency.The eBOSS system is the culmination of more than 20 years of development at Edgetech.Designed to penetrate the seabed and deliver reliable results, it provides users

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Zunibal Acquires Hydroacoustic Company Echoview

estimates, assess size distributions, and enrich oceanographic models with higher-precision data. Additionally, it will allow Zunibal to diversify its technology portfolio, boosting areas such as sustainable fisheries management, aquaculture, oceanography, and the blue economy.Echoview’s software platform is recognized as the standard reference by scientific institutes, public agencies, and leading companies in more than 70 countries, and its technology has been cited in over 2,500 specialized academic publications. They also offer specialized hydroacoustic training, consulting, and client servicesTh

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Spear AI Raises Funding to Apply AI to Submarine Data

deal with Meta Platforms.Data from acoustic sensors is different. Spear AI co-founders Michael Hunter, a former analyst who supported Navy SEALs and the Joint Special Operations Command, and John McGunnigle, a former nuclear submarine commander for the U.S. Navy, are building a hardware and software platform that aims to prepare that data for AI algorithms.The company sells sensors that can be attached to buoys or vessels and a software tool to help label and sort the data gathered by the sensors to make it ready to be put into AI systems. The U.S. Navy this month awarded Spear AI a $6-million

Vatn Systems announced a strategic partnership with Palantir Technologies to further digitize and scale its manufacturing capabilities. Credit: Vatn Systems

Vatn Systems, Palantir Partner to Scale Manufacturing of AUVs for National Defense

visibility into our operations, strengthening our ability to anticipate challenges, optimize resources, and deliver critical systems to our customers with unprecedented speed and precision," said Nelson Mills, co-founder and CEO of Vatn Systems.The partnership leverages Palantir's software platform to digitize the manufacturing process and provide AI-driven insights that will accelerate the production of underwater vehicles for national security applications. The collaboration will enable Vatn to streamline its Supply Chain Management and build additional resiliency."Vatn is building

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Leidos and Nauticus Robotics Forge Strategic Alliance

; complementary expertise to develop next-generation autonomous underwater systems capable of tackling increasingly complex missions.Nauticus will apply its expertise in commercial subsea vehicle development, including its flagship Aquanaut system, along with its proprietary unmanned vehicle software platform, ToolKITT, to enhance the capabilities of future unmanned underwater vehicles

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Greensea IQ Demos Autonomous Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mission

Greensea IQ to include batteries and an acoustic modem. During the demo, real world tasks were demonstrated by autonomously searching the environment for threats utilizing acoustic communications.This demonstration highlighted the autonomy system for EOD Workspace, Greensea IQ's robot agnostic software platform for Mine Countermeasure (MCM) and Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) operations. It also showcased Safe C2, Greensea IQ's communication platform for long-range standoff command and control of autonomous ocean robots, both integrated within the OPENSEA Edge modular, hardware-agnostic system

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Ocean Robotics: Meet Greensea IQ

in 2006 to “develop an open architecture software environment that would help propel the industry into the coming era of autonomy and perception,” as well as intelligence data mining from the ocean using robotics, which is Greensea ubiquitous OpenSea platform: an open architecture software platform with a modular framework that is designed to enable quick and easy integration of robotic systems, delivering precision and accuracy to ROVs, AUVs and marine robotics. Today, globally, there are thousands of vehicles from 35 manufacturers running on OpenSea, Kinnaman said in an interview

The Argeo SeaRaptor.
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Argeo Builds the Tools to Bridge the Data Gap

unexploded ordnances. “Argeo Discover” is an application or detecting, delineating, and characterizing deep sea mineral deposits or other conductive objects below the seafloor utilizing an electromagnetic source integrated in an AUV or ROV.Argeo SCOPE (previously Digital Ocean Space) software platform reached a milestone when it was released as a commercial product. Argeo SCOPE is a fast and performant 3D visualization of vast amounts of ocean space data in the cloud, supporting a collaborative data sharing and interpretation workflow. The system allows for seamless data fusion from seabed

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