Tag: marine
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Saildrone fleet surpasses 1 million nautical miles and 32,000 days at sea
Saildrone says it has reached “another major milestone”. Its fleet of uncrewed surface vehicles (USVs) has surpassed an incredible cumulative distance of 1,000,000 nautical miles during more than 32,000 days at sea, deployed on missions around the globe. Equivalent to circumnavigating the Earth 48 times and almost 89 years at sea for a single vehicle,…
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4ocean launches new drone to help keep the world’s coastlines clean
4ocean, a startup company which specialises in building robots to clean up the environment, has unveiled its latest machine – the Pixie Drone. (See video below.) The Pixie Drone is designed to help keep coastlines free of plastic and other floating debris without disturbing marine life. The company says the Pixie is both remote controlled and…
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Nauticus Robotics and Leidos execute additional $2.1 million contract extension
Nauticus Robotics, a developer of autonomous robots using artificial intelligence for data collection and intervention services for the ocean industries, has been awarded an additional $2.1 million under its current contract with Leidos, a science and technology company. The additional funding augments the earlier award and this program has received $16.6 million in funding from…
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4Ocean robot cleans up Florida beach as part of startup’s mission to clean up the world’s oceans
A robot built by 4Ocean is cleaning up Florida beach as part of the startup company’s mission to clean up the entire world’s oceans. An ambitious mission for sure, and one for which the company admits “there is no playbook”, but 4Ocean has already collected 28 million pounds of trash from the plastic-polluted salty waters…
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Fugro expands its autonomous vessel fleet for geophysical surveys
Fugro has signed a contract with Kooiman Engineering and Van Oossanen Naval Architects for the naval design of Blue Prism, Fugro’s next generation of uncrewed surface vessels (USVs). Specifically engineered for operations in both coastal and offshore environments, the Blue Prism will combine an ultra-low carbon footprint with high quality data collection, weather resilience and…
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Marine robotics specialist Vaarst raises $20 million to expand
Marine robotics specialist Vaarst has closed on the first $20 million of its Series B round led by energy transition investor Legal & General Capital, alongside the venture capital arm of the international energy company Equinor. Existing shareholder Foresight Group also participated alongside In-Q-Tel, the strategic investor for the US intelligence and defence communities and…
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Open Ocean Robotics raises $4 million to develop autonomous boat
Open Ocean Robotics has completed a $4 million round of seed financing to advance its marine robotics and ocean data analytics platform. This included a $2.8 million non-dilutive investment from Sustainable Development Technology Canada, an agency of the Canadian government, and $1.2 million from a syndicate of international investors including Rhiza Capital and Cindicates. This…
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MassRobotics partners with Abu Dhabi organization for $3 million prize competition
MassRobotics is partnering with a group from Abu Dhabi to organize another biennial edition of the MBZIRC Maritime Grand Challenge, also known as the Mohammed Bin Zayed International Robotics Challenge. The organizers say it is a global competition “designed to push the boundaries of autonomous robotics” and features a total prize purse of over $3…
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Sea Machines Robotics and HamiltonJet unveil new autonomous vessel technology
Sea Machines Robotics and HamiltonJet, a marine propulsion systems provider, have launched a new intelligent voyage control product, named JETsense, that utilizes autonomous navigation, multi-sensor fusion and computer vision. The two companies say the new system is designed to “move waterjet vessels to the forefront of 21st century navigation and utility”. JETsense utilizes artificial intelligence…
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Sea Machines completes ‘world’s first’ 1,000 nautical mile autonomous voyage
Sea Machines Robotics, a developer of autonomous command and control systems for the maritime industry, has completed what is believed to be the world’s first 1,000+ nautical miles autonomous and remotely commanded journey of a commercial vessel at sea. Under the project name The Machine Odyssey, the autonomous tug Nellie Bly completed its journey in…