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Liquid Robotics' Wave Glider USVs help study effects of lava flow from Hawaii's Kilauea Volcano

Liquid Robotics recently deployed two of its Wave Glider USVs to help scientist study the effects of the lava from Kilauea Volcano in Hawaii when it enters the ocean and the large plume it creates, as well as the impacts on marine life. As evident by its name, the Wave Glider is wave powered, meaning that it doesn't require any fuel power other than the waves of the ocean to carry it place to place. In this particular use case, Wave Gliders provide researchers a no risk way to monitor the volcanic activity. 

Liquid Robotics' Wave Gliders USV selected to conduct scientific research in Arctic and Southern Oceans

Liquid Robotics’ Wave Glider USV has been selected as the sensor platform to conduct advanced scientific research in the “most inhospitable and remote regions” of the Arctic and Southern Oceans by top oceanographers from Scripps Institution of Oceanography (Scripps) and the Applied Physics Laboratory of the University of Washington (APL-UW).

General Dynamics team successfully completes all stages of formal Sea Acceptance Testing of Knifefish UUV

The General Dynamics Mission Systems team has successfully completed all stages of formal Sea Acceptance Testing (SAT) of the U.S. Navy’s Surface Mine Countermeasure (MCM) UUV system, Knifefish. Testing, which was conducted off the coast of Boston, used Navy mine test targets, and included various undersea, MCM operational scenarios in several simulated mine fields. With SAT now complete, the Knifefish system will begin Developmental Tests and Operational Assessment evaluations.

SeeByte's Area Breakdown Tool helps increase efficiency of unmanned maritime systems operators planning complex MCM missions

SeeByte has launched the Area Breakdown Tool (ABT), which is designed to increase the efficiency of unmanned maritime systems (UMS) operators as they plan complex Mine Countermeasure (MCM) missions. ABT has been designed to help operators divide large Operational Areas into smaller sections that can then be assigned to unmanned systems. These areas can be customized for the platform type, the duration of the mission, or the number of vehicles in the squad.  ​The result is that ABT helps the operator efficiently prepare a “set of sortie plans,” and quickly evaluate alternatives for a complex mission involving multiple unmanned maritime vehicles.

Robotics & AI Summit

The Robotics & AI Summit at LiveWorx, June 18-19, is produced by Robotics Business Review, a market leading source for “actionable business intelligence” for the global robotics, automation and artificial intelligence market.   The Robotics & AI Summit at LiveWorx is a two day conference for company executives, engineers, and investors from around the world seeking expert advice and new partners for developing, selling, purchasing, and investing in robotics, AI, and machine learning technologies. This one-of-a-kind manufacturing business summit identifies the market forces driving change and the business strategies organizations need to adopt to sustain or regain competitiveness as digital automation revolutionizes all industry sectors of manufacturing.

Energy Drone Coalition Summit

The Energy Drone Summit is a forum dedicated to launching, growing and scaling enterprise UAV/Robotics operations in energy companies worldwide by bringing together the major rapidly growing segments within the UAV/AUV/Robotics ecosystem, with the energy industrial complex asset owners and end users. This is the only event exclusively focused on the business and technology of UAVs/Robotics – aerial, ground/surface & subsea in energy operations. You can be a part of the largest event in the world where the key challenges & solutions for how the industry is currently operating UAVs/Robotics successfully in the Oil & Gas, Power, Maritime, Wind/Solar, Chemical, Refining, Petrochemical, Energy Engineering & Construction markets.  

Textron Systems' CUSV demonstrated on Potomac River Test Range

On March 28, Textron Systems' Common Unmanned Surface Vehicle (CUSV) autonomously conducted maneuvers on the Potomac River Test Range during a demonstration before an audience made up of government, defense contractors, and military personnel. During the event, Navy and corporate leaders discussed their collaboration to weaponize a CUSV capable of multiple missions. “The reason we collaborate is because we as a nation find ourselves in a situation where we can no longer take time to deliver capability to our warfighters,” says John Fiore, Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division (NSWCDD) technical director, during the March 28 event.

Survae's digital asset management platform now connected to C-2i Innovations' autonomous amphibious robot

Survae and autonomous amphibious robots' developer C-2i Innovations have announced that Survae’s digital asset management platform is now connected to C-2i’s Sea Otter device, which is used for all-weather inspection, sampling and mapping of shore and water regions, from oceans and harbors to rivers, estuaries, marshes and tailing ponds. The Sea Otter, which is portable and deployable from beaches and small boats, provides persistent sensing where UUVs and ROVs cannot, the companies say. Operating up to 10 miles from shore, the Sea Otter is highly maneuverable, and in a single deployment it can cover multiple stations, providing versatile station keeping for up to five months in all weather/all season situations.

ASV Global and Peel Ports Group partner to develop use of autonomous vessel technology for UK port operations

ASV Global (ASV) and Peel Ports Group have launched a partnership to “develop the use of autonomous vessel technology for UK port operations.” The partnership, which was cemented in March when the companies signed an official Memorandum of Understanding, began with a visit from ASV’s team to the Port of Liverpool to demonstrate an autonomous vessel called the C-Cat 3, which is ideal for shallow survey operations. Operating in Brocklebank Dock, the C-Cat 3 conducted seabed survey using a Norbit iWBMS multibeam echosounder. The successful demonstration led Peel Ports Group to look into the possibility of using the technology at its other sites throughout the United Kingdom.

Colorado’s energy, attributes attract unmanned systems industry

When Canada’s Aeryon Labs decided to set up a separate defense-focused company so it could work with the U.S. military on unmanned systems programs, it quickly settled on Colorado — and specifically Denver — as home for the new Aeryon Defense, which just launched on Feb. 1.   Tom Jackson, a retired U.S. Marine Corps officer and AH-1W Super Cobra pilot who is the company’s vice president and general manager, was already in the area, as were other employees who formed the nucleus of the new venture.   Beyond that, however, the state and city offered some unique attributes. Colorado is very centrally located, so it’s easier for the company to support multiple time zones and for company officials to travel to defense facilities around the country.  
The Denver skyline. Photo: iStock/f11photo

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