Autonomous Underwater Vehicle to Assist Coast Guard
A new autonomous underwater vehicle under development with the assistance of the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will help the coast guard with...
Top-Notch Autonomous Abilities Used for Mine Identification
Norway’s Kongsberg Maritime signed a $18.2 million contract with the country’s Defence Materiel Agency (NDMA) to deliver four complete HUGIN AUV systems - Autonomous...
Autonomous Surface Mine Countermeasure Tested Successfully
A comprehensive evaluation of a new autonomous surface mine countermeasure (SMCM) unmanned undersea vehicle (UUV) was successfully completed. The vehicle, Knifefish, was designed by...
Underwater and Aerial Missions by Same Unmanned Vehicle
InnoCorp, LLC has introduced the SubMurres, an unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV) and an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) drone. It transitions from water to air...
Robotic System Developed for Use in Underwater EOD Disposal
RE2 Robotics, a developer of robotic manipulator arms, has received a Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) award to develop an inflatable Underwater...
Drone Ship Gets More Autonomous and Offensive Capabilities
The US Navy is expanding the capabilities of its emerging submarine hunting drone ship so that it can conduct surface warfare missions, fire weapons...
Navy Uses Underwater Robots to Predict Ocean Currents
Ocean gliders are autonomous underwater vehicles used to collect oceanographic data to better understand the ocean. The US navy uses them to plan its...
What Does it Take to Develop Unmanned Underwater Vehicles?
Indonesia has been developing its own unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV) in an attempt to enhance its maritime security, but experts say it faces major challenges...
Autonomous Systems Technology will Help Clear Marine Mines
The UK and France have been cooperating in a Maritime Mine Counter Measures (MMCM) program based on unmanned vehicle technology. On the 20th of...
UAVs Showcased New Capabilities During UK Naval Exercise
A number of upgrades to UK-operated unmanned aerial systems were demonstrated at the Royal Navy’s Unmanned Warrior exercise this month. Boeing and Thales have...
Developments in Unmanned Maritime Vehicle World
Lockheed Martin has successfully launched the Vector Hawk, a small, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), on command from the Marlin MK2 autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV)...
UK Navy Will Conduct Unmanned Fleet Experiments
The UK Navy is operating a robot fleet of seven submarine gliders and three surface wave gliders to collect environmental data in real time...
Autonomous Devices Working Together in American Exercise
The test launch of an aerial drone from an unmanned submarine has been deemed a success, US defense contractor Lockheed Martin said in a...
AUS&R 2016 – Great Interest in Autonomous Systems Field
AUS&R 2016 focused the attention to the unmanned systems role both in the battlefield and in the homeland security sphere.
The convention was a remarkable...
New Developments at the AUS&R 2016 Confernece
As the presentations went on, the convention’s visitors got a clearer picture of expected developments in the unmanned aerial and land devices industry.
For example,...
After Great Anticipation: The AUS&R 2016 Convention Has Begun
Two hours ago the AUS&R convention, hosted by iHLS has begun. The annual convention, the fourth and biggest of it’s kind, will focus on...
US Navy Exercises Autonomous Underwater Technologies
General Dynamics have launched a Bluefin-21 autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) and the Bluefin SandShark Micro-Underwater Vehicle during US Navy sponsored 2016 Annual Naval Technology...
US Ministry of Defense Delegation to Attend AUS&R 2016
A delegation of 14 experts from the US ministry of defense will attend the AUS&R 2016 Convention. The delegation of the US Department of...
Northrop Grumman Demonstrates New Autonomy Framework
Northrop Grumman has demonstrated a new autonomy framework that enables multiple unrelated unmanned systems to communicate and collaborate on a mission. The demonstration took...
World Delegations Seek Business Opportunities at Unmanned Systems Conference
The numerous delegations which will participate at the AUS&R Unmanned Systems and Robotics Conference on September 19 are interested first and foremost in doing...
Prepare to Takeoff – 2016’s AUS&R Unmanned Systems and Robotics Convention
The Unmanned Systems and Robotics AUS&R 2016 international convention has been attracting the attention of world’s leading states and defense industries, including the US,...
Autonomous Robotic Submarines participated at Student Competition
Student-designed-and-built autonomous robotic submarines had to complete a difficult series of visual- and acoustic-based tasks in the international competition RoboSub held in San Diego,...
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