Uncrewed Systems News & Articles

The Royal Navy’s RFA Proteus will serve as a launchpad for ROVs and as a home to a suite of specialist capabilities for advancing science and technological development

VideoRay’s acquisition of Blue Ring will improve situational awareness and object detection capabilities of the Mission Specialist Defender robot

Demand for specialist AUVs for scientific, industrial and defense applications from RTsys has risen, resulting in an order of 30 Teledyne Marine DVLs

Maxwell Marine’s anchoring system will have fully autonomous operation and the ability to retrieve very long lengths of chain in extreme weather conditions with no human intervention

Using multiple sensors and cameras, the cutting-edge EverClean robot accumulates a wealth of valuable data on the ships while they are being serviced

Teledyne Marine has delivered over 1,100 Slocum Glider AUVs, making it possible to gather critical sub-surface ocean data in the most extreme conditions

The NOAA has awarded Chance Maritime a potential sum of $22.5M to provide its twenty-nine-foot-long USV, which can perform high-power, long-endurance operations

Saildrone’s Explorers are powered exclusively by renewable energy and can stay on station for months at a time before sailing autonomously to port for regular service

MBARI’s LRAUVs have more than 40,000 hours of sea time, including operations with custom payloads that include environmental DNA sampling, plankton imaging, scientific echosounders, and more

Open Ocean Robotics has won contracts for Meteorological and Oceanographic Observations, Living Marine Resource Surveys and Research, and Ocean Exploration and Characterization

Thales’ ROUV promises to redefine the mine countermeasures concept of operations by ensuring naval personnel remain outside the mine danger area

SEA-KIT’s proprietary VCS will reduce reliance on external communication, ensuring real-time decision making and operation even in remote or communication-restricted areas

This LUSV program aims to reduce crew numbers by embracing onboard automation and safety, whilst maintaining vessel flexibility with a minimal crew and evolving its use into the future battlespace

The collaboration enables the integration of Robosys’ Voyager AI, allowing customers to swiftly convert their vessels to fully autonomous and/or lean-crewed operations

The XLAUV will showcase its advanced autonomous underwater capabilities in an intelligence gathering, surveillance and reconnaissance scenario

The ZEPHYR project aims to provide readily accessible green electricity and 100% green hydrogen production, compression, storage and dispensing for port operators and stakeholders

Cellula Robotics' Solus-XR is powered by cutting-edge hydrogen fuel cell technology and can achieve operational ranges of up to 5000 kilometers

Exail’s DriX USV can be used for offshore and nearshore surveys in conditions up to sea state 5 without compromising data quality

Greensea Systems, Bayonet Ocean Vehicles, and Armach Robotics have been restructured into Greensea IQ to improve interactions with, and understanding of, the oceans