Apr 3, 2025 | Autonomous Ships, Autonomous Vehicles, Featured, Oceanography
A new paper from an international team of more than 50 researchers, including four from UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography, proposes the creation of a global observing network of AVs roving the ocean surface. Such a network of so-called uncrewed...
Feb 20, 2025 | Autonomous Ships, Autonomous Vehicles, Shipping
Texas-based Saronic Technologies announced Tuesday it raised $600 million in private funding to build an autonomous shipyard it’s calling Port Alpha. The company plans to use the facility to grow its fleet of medium- and large-class autonomous surface...
Dec 9, 2024 | Autonomous Ships, Climate, Drones
A small fleet of drone submarines sits in drydock at a Virginia Tech engineering building. They’re autonomous underwater vehicles, AUVs for short, and they come in multiple sizes. Among them are three bright yellow ones called 690 AUV. They’re as tall as an NBA...
Nov 13, 2024 | Autonomous Ships, Autonomous Vehicles, Military
Saab announced this week the arrival of something called the Autonomous Ocean Core. Technically a hardware and software suite, the tech is described as a ready-to-use autonomous control system meant to turn surface and subsurface ships into autonomous platforms...
Oct 17, 2024 | Aeronautics, Autonomous Ships, Defense, Featured
The Army is developing requirements to distribute supplies to troops on the battlefield in a contested environment using a network of autonomous boats and aircraft, according to the general in charge of logistics modernization. “Our focus is an...
Sep 26, 2024 | Artificial Intelligence, Autonomous Ships, Autonomous Vehicles, Featured
Offshore wind technology company Beam has deployed the world’s first AI-driven autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) – a breakthrough in offshore wind inspections. The cutting-edge tech was put to the test at Seagreen, Scotland’s largest offshore site, which is a joint...
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