Oct 8, 2025 | Amphibious, Autonomous Ships
Shipbuilding startups in Massachusetts and Rhode Island have raised a lot of money recently. It’s a funding drive fueled by the possibility of autonomous ships. Scott Kirsner, columnist for WBUR’s editorial partner MassLive, reports that the United States...
Sep 19, 2025 | Autonomous Ships, Pollution, Robots
Marine litter is a major environmental problem around the world. As part of the EU project SEACLEAR, a research team at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has now developed an autonomous diving robot that can detect and retrieve litter. It uses an AI system to...
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...
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