The U.S. Army is building smarter robots to help it complete the more dangerous tasks with minimal risk to human lives. It already has an existing fleet of about 3,000 small tactical robots deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan which use sensor technology to sweep sensitive areas for Improvised Explosive Devices or IED's.
Contineo Robotics and Remotec are entering into a partnership to develop life saving technology. Remotec is a subsidiary of Northrop Grumman, the global security firm. The collaboration based in Oklahoma City will improve tactics used by first responders in crisis situations.
iRobot has declared that it has obtained two contracts from the Naval Oceanographic Office (NAVOCEANO). The first $920,000 worth agreement focuses on supplying iRobot’s Seaglider Unmanned Underwater Vehicles (UUVs) with options.
International Submarine Engineering (ISE) has supplied a new Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) termed ‘Hakuyo 150-3000’ to SNK Ocean, a Japan-based marine services company.
Farstad Shipping has announced that it has made a NOK335 million worth contract with Petrobras for offering its Far Scotia to function as Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) prop vessel in Brazil.
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.
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