RS Aqua Announces Strategic Partnership with US -based Seasats to Bring Autonomous Surface Vehicles to UK and Ireland Defence Market
RS Aqua announced a new strategic partnership with Seasats, a San Diego-based unmanned surface vehicle (USV) developer, to introduce their range of security platforms to the United Kingdom (UK) and Ireland defense market.Seasats is known for its high endurance, modular, and user-friendly USVs designed to deliver maritime domain awareness through autonomous operations. Through this partnership, RS Aqua will represent and support the Seasats product portfolio across the UK and Ireland.Seasats’ inaugural model, the Lightfish, is a modular USV engineered for long duration autonomous missions.
NYK Invests in USV Startup Oceanic Constellations
NYK recently made an equity investment in Oceanic Constellations Inc. (OC) through a third-party allotment of new shares, funding expected to support OC’s efforts to establish a mass-production framework for unmanned surface vehicles (USVs), among other initiatives.OC, an ocean-tech startup, aims to establish a mass-production framework for USVs within the next few years. The large-scale production and social implementation of USVs will enable the creation of new marine infrastructure that contributes to addressing societal challenges such as ocean surveillance, disaster prevention
Robotics Essential to Coral Reef Preservation Efforts
with visual habitat classification onboard AUVs to provide multi-modal coral reef surveys. Current AI and machine learning developments additionally enable real-time data analysis and improved imaging techniques.Developments in autonomous systems, including the integration of AUVs with autonomous surface vehicles offer exciting possibilities for multi-platform operations, they say, with recent technological advancements including centimeter-scale coral-monitoring robots that can access narrow coral reef crevices that are inaccessible to conventional larger AUVs.AUVs also play a crucial role in coral
USV Surveys to Aid Restoration Efforts on Scottish Loch
endangered flapper skate.A collaboration involving scientists and robotics engineers from the Scottish Association for Marine Science (SAMS) Enterprise team, Unique Group and the University of Glasgow is currently planning a major survey of the loch, following a successful trial of autonomous surface vehicles.The aim of the survey is to use the marine robotics to accurately survey the loch to build a habitat suitability model, which will inform the most effective site for reintroducing European flat oysters. The model will also indicate where flapper skate are most likely to lay their eggs.Researchers
AlphaGeo UK Joins GeoAcoustics Ltd in Channel Partner Network
UK to represent GeoAcoustics’ full portfolio of sonar systems, including the GeoSwath 4 interferometric bathymetric sonar, GeoScan side scan sonar, and GeoPulse sub-bottom profiler, across the UK and Ireland. The collaboration will place particular emphasis on integration with Uncrewed Surface Vehicles (USVs) and Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROVs).With a background in supporting sectors including offshore energy, infrastructure inspection, and environmental monitoring, AlphaGeo UK brings a strong focus on the use of compact and modular sensor systems for autonomous platforms. The partnership
Hybrid Theory: Multi-Domain Unmanned Systems are Blurring Maritime Boundaries
[2031: Somewhere in the Luzon Strait] Under cover of darkness, an elite team of Navy SEALs reaches an uninhabited island and moves inland. Fifty km out to sea, a flotilla of autonomous underwater and surface vehicles (AUSVs) shifts between the surface and the safety of the deep, keeping a stealthy, unblinking eye on enemy fleet movements and transmitting near-real-time intelligence to USINDOPACOM and the embarked SEALs. From behind the beach, a small amphibious quadcopter takes to the sky, traveling ten km offshore where it descends, lands on the water’s surface, and submerges, its onboard
USV Provides Near Real-Time Deep Ocean Current Observations
previously hidden, but disruptive, deep ocean currents in near-real-time has been proven by a recently completed uncrewed technology collaboration in the US Gulf of Mexico. In a science-industry first, marine technology companies Sonardyne and SeaTrac Systems used advanced sensors and uncrewed surface vehicles (USVs) to deliver science-ready deep ocean current data on the Gulf’s Loop Current System, direct to scientists’ desks in near real-time.The project, commissioned and in collaboration with the University of Rhode Island (URI), opens the door to reliable, on-demand and sustained high-resol
OPT, Mythos AI Partner Up for Autonomous Maritime Systems Boost
Ocean Power Technologies (OPT) has partnered with Mythos AI to integrate advanced artificial intelligence autonomy software across OPT’s WAM-V autonomous surface vehicles and PowerBuoy platforms.The partnership aims to enhance OPT’s operational performance and expand its range of integrated maritime solutions for customers in the defense, security, and commercial sectors, strengthening its position in the autonomous and intelligent systems market.Under the agreement, OPT and Mythos AI will integrate Mythos’s autonomy stack into OPT’s existing WAM-V fleet, with initial demonstrati
Lockheed Martin Invests $50M in Saildrone to Advance USV Capabilities for US Navy
we needed to make the core technology robust. We undertook thousands of iterations on hardware, firmware, and software, which rapidly evolved the technology and the endurance. Over those six years of evolution, we sailed over one million nautical miles and stacked up many world firsts for autonomous surface vehicles; the first circumnavigation of Antarctica, our first transatlantic crossing and the fastest ever by a USV, Arctic operations at 76 degrees north, the longest uninterrupted mission of more than a year without servicing or landfall, the list goes on.In hindsight, we had our heads down, deep in
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