SeaRobotics wins U.S. Naval Research Laboratory contract

Stuart, Fla., based unmanned marine systems developer SeaRobotics Corporation has been awarded developer a contract award to supply multiple SR-Surveyor M1.8 autonomous surface vessels (ASVs) to the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL).

Sea Machines to prototype use of barges as autonomous military helipads

The U.S. Department of Defense’s Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) has awarded Boston headquartered Sea Machine Robotics a contract to enable autonomous, self-propelled operation of opportunistically available commercial ocean barges to land and

Gibbs & Cox wins DARPA Sea Train award

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded Gibbs & Cox, Inc. a multi-phase contract to develop and demonstrate a Connectorless Sea Train concept. DARPA has exercised the base development phase

Coast Guard R&D Center to test and evaluate Sharktech autonomous vessel

Boston-based Sea Machines Robotics has partnered with Jeanerette, La., headquartered shipbuilder Metal Shark Boats to supply the U.S. Coast Guard Research and Development Center (RDC) with a new Sharktech 29 Defiant vessel

Robotic vessels

VIDEO: Ocean Infinity orders a fleet of robot ships

Marine robotics company Ocean Infinity, which specializes in seafloor analysis and oceanography services, has placed an order with Norwegian aluminum workboat specialist Grovfjord Mek. Verksted (GMV) for what it calls “an armada”

VIDEO: Mayflower Autonomous Ship is in the water

Ocean research non-profit ProMare and IBM (NYSE:IBM) report that, following two years of design, construction and training of its AI models, the Mayflower Autonomous Ship (MAS) was today lifted into the waters

Sea Machines partners with Maine Maritime and MARAD on autonomous vessel training

Students at Maine Maritime Academy, Castine, Me., are to get hands-on education about autonomous marine systems. Boston-based Sea Machines Robotics has partnered with the academy and the U.S. Maritime Administration’s Maritime Environmental

ProZero participates in EU funded short sea shipping project

Danish workboat producer ProZero International reports that it is one of the participants in an EU funded project called MOSES that aims to increase the short sea shipping component of the European

Huntington Ingalls makes strategic equity investment in Sea Machines Robotics

Boston-based Sea Machines Robotics, a leading developer of autonomous systems for ocean-going vessels and workboats, reports that it has closed a new $15 million financing round with significant participation by Huntington Ingalls

Sea Machines autonomy selected for unmanned Wadden Sea surveys

A survey vessel owned by Netherlands-based survey company Deep BV will soon be operating in the Wadden Sea commanded by personnel in the company’s Amsterdam office. Deep, which specializes in hydrography, marine

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