Sep 11, 2025 | Autonomous Ships, Autonomous Vehicles, Featured, UK
Britain’s BAE Systems said it was aiming to bring an autonomous submarine to market by 2026, amid interest from countries increasingly worried about underwater threats, following a series of attacks on subsea cables. BAE successfully tested its Herne...
Aug 28, 2025 | Autonomous Ships, Shipping
The world’s largest unmanned surface vehicle capable of operating independently across all oceans has been awarded class certification by the American Bureau of Shipping (ABS). The Saildrone Surveyor, a fully autonomous 65-foot-long (20-meter-long) unmanned surface...
Jul 10, 2025 | Autonomous Ships, Autonomous Vehicles, Oceanography
A new autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) imaged a previously unexplored portion of the seafloor in ultra-deep waters near the Mariana Trench. Operationalizing this technology for the first time was part of a mission led by the Ocean Exploration Cooperative...
May 8, 2025 | Artificial Intelligence, Autonomous Ships, Featured
Founded in 2018 by CEO Yarden Gross and CTO Dor Raviv, Orca AI applies AI-powered decision making and autonomous capabilities to ships based on a marine visual dataset of over 80 million nautical miles. By employing AI in navigation, it’s possible to significantly...
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...
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