The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has anchored its latest $55 million worth research vessel named ‘Bell M Shimada’ in San Diego. The vessel will be deployed for scientific research operations along the West Coast.
The University of Alaska-Fairbanks (UAF) team, comprising members from the University of Washington’s Applied Physics Laboratory and the Northwest Aerial Robotics Cluster (NWARC), has received $47 million worth Basic Ordering Agreement award from the Naval Surface Warfare Center, Crane Division.
Scientists from four Australian universities will use a robot to explore the Coral Sea and investigate never-before-seen reefs. The researchers from Queensland will leave Cairns this week for a week long expedition.
Scientists at the British Columbia University are researching the ice-shelves of Antartica between October 17 and November 12 with the help of UBC-Gavia, an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) which will traverse through deep ice-covered waters of Antarctica’s Erebus Glacier Tongue in McMurdo Sound of thickness 100 m whose latitude is 77° south.
India’s Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) which was built by the National Institute of Ocean Technology (NIOT) in collaboration with the Russian-based Experimental Design Bureau of Oceanological Engineering (EDBOE) has been deployed in the investigation of iron and manganese hydroxides rich polymetallic nodules at a depth of around 6000 m in the Central Indian Ocean Basin.
Saab Seaeye, a global provider of electrically operated Remote Operated Vehicles (ROVs), has announced that it has received a procurement order from Jifmar Offshore Services for two Cougar XT ROVs.
Liquid Robotics Inc has received the 2010 Technology Innovation Award from Wall Street Journal for developing Wave Glider an unmanned robotic seafaring craft propelled by solar and tidal power.
Researchers of Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL) are working on Swarming Micro Air Vehicle Network (SMAVNET) project for developing aerial swarming robots which can be employed in catastrophic locations for creating communication pathways between rescuers and their base.
Schilling Robotics, a global provider of deep-ocean robotic systems, has obtained a purchase order from DOF Subsea for two Ultra Heavy Duty (UHD) Remote Operated Vehicle (ROV) systems with 200 hp power pack options.
Aeryon Labs, a global provider of Unmanned Air Vehicles (UAVs) and other related robotic systems, has supplied Aeryon Scout UAVs to British Petroleum for assisting BP’ attempts of cleaning oil spills.