USVs

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NXInnovation 100 Enviro

While people around the world now acknowledge the importance of environmental sustainability and helping the planet, it remains a sad and common sight for those living in city waterfronts to see litter strewn in urban waters...

Digest

SWL Robotics Tiburon

In the world of autonomous and intelligent systems, competencies developed in one type of vehicle can enable major breakthroughs for others. The marine sector in particular has benefited from innovations originally engineered elsewhere...

PS

Seabed ‘harvesting’ robots

Mining is generally considered a particularly damaging activity for the environment, and the prospect of mining the seabed for industrially important metals is a controversial one (writes Peter Donaldson). It is also a major focus for developments in robotic technologies...

Dossier

TideWise USV Tupan

In Brazil, offshore energy is big business. The country is the world’s eighth-largest oil producer, most of which comes from basins off ...

Digest

Accession Class USV

Adaptability through modularity was central to Unmanned Survey Solutions’ concept for its Accession Class USV. The craft can be operated in its 3.5 m-long base version, or extended to 4.25 or 5 m by inserting a modular hull section either 0.75 or 1.5 m long...

Insight

USVs

Tailoring an autonomous vehicle to match the geography and altitude of its mission environment is most often the primary determinant of its success in operational and sales terms...