DWTEK's ROV I90+, equipped with a cutting-edge water jet tool, successfully completed the maintenance operation of 80 wind turbines, with a total power capacity of over 600 MW, located in western Taiwan in July. The company's latest achievement includes breaking its record, with each turbine now capable of cleaning a 10m² section within one hour.

Ocean Robotics Planet Magazine Issue 40: Events Calendar & Welcome to Ocean Robotics Planet - The Evolution of Oceaneering - The Future of Electric Manipulators - Underwater ROV Operations in Mixed Reality - Facilitating a New Lease of Life in ROV Buoyancy - Overcoming the Challenges of Next-Generation UUVs with Exail Phins 9 Compact INS - Fleet Architecture Relies on a Mix of Manned and Unmanned Platforms - Poster: Manta Ray - Manta Ray to Support Long-Duration Undersea Missions - Uncrewed Maritime Systems Development Takes Center-Stage - VideoRay: An American ROV Revolution (Part 2) - Thirty Years of Inertial Navigation Evolution Puts Kongsberg Discovery at Apex of Motion-Sensor Market - How the REMUS 300 UUV is Leveraging the Latest Technologies in CT Sensors- Celebrating Collaboration Success on Renewables for Subsea Power...

Tethys Robotics, a pioneering Swiss startup in underwater robotics, announces the global launch of its latest product: Tethys ONE, an ROV/AUV hybrid designed for automated precision underwater inspections, even in the harshest conditions.

General Dynamics Mission Systems announced today that it was awarded a cost-plus-fixed-fee modification to a previously awarded contract by the U.S. Navy worth $20.7 million to exercise an option for Hammerhead Encapsulated Effector systems. Hammerhead is a moored anti-submarine mine which delivers new capabilities and effects to the U.S. Navy. Work will be performed in Taunton, Mass., and is expected to be completed by June 2026.

Exail Users Conferences are premier events that bring together industry leaders and experts in maritime and photonics technology each year. Organized by Exail for the past six years in iconic locations across Europe, these annual users conferences have become essential gatherings for market players. They offer unique opportunities to explore the latest advancements, share insights, and collaborate on solutions that shape the future of these dynamic industries.

The subsea world can be a murky place, making it challenging to monitor crucial operations like cable deployment. This is where the ISS360HD Imaging Sonar comes in, recently integrated with North Sea Systems' innovative CableFish® system. This powerful combination enables accurate visualisation and real-time monitoring of cable touchdown points during deployment.

Ocean services provider DeepOcean has been awarded a contract extension with Diavaz for the vessel, Arbol Grande. The vessel will work on Inspection Maintenance and Repair (IMR) services in Mexico for the next five years.

The first of its kind, a containerised remotely operated towed vehicle (ROTV) solution, developed for the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD), has now successfully completed Factory Acceptance Tests (FAT) – just 6 months after the contract was awarded to Danish subsea engineering specialist EIVA. Through containerisation, this new type of survey solution enables hydrographic surveys with multiple acoustic survey sensors and instruments to be performed from many different host platforms with very short deployment time.

Greensea IQ, is proud to announce an extension to its prototype (Other Transaction Agreement) with the Defense Innovation Unit and U.S. Navy following the successful completion to Phase 3 of the Autonomous Expeditionary Maritime Response Vehicle (AEMRV) prototype last fall. The objective of this contract modification is to demonstrate a production-ready edge processing configuration of Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) Workspace, called EOD Edge, deployed in Greensea’s IQNS, with the autonomy and Automatic Target Recognition (ATR) components. This contract extension signifies a closer step to providing this enabling technology to U.S. Navy EOD Technicians.

Subsea7 today announced the award of a sizeable(1) contract in the US Gulf of Mexico. The scope of work includes engineering, procurement, construction, and offshore installation of a water injection flowline, hull piping, and associated subsea infrastructure.

The Marine Technology Society (MTS) and the Society for Underwater Technology (SUT) are thrilled to announce Martin “Marty” Klein as the distinguished recipient of the 2024 Captain Don Walsh Award for Ocean Exploration. This prestigious award recognizes an individual who has made outstanding, sustained, and international contributions to the development, application, or propagation of marine and underwater technology toward the advancement of ocean exploration.

DWE.ai, a leader in cutting-edge underwater computer vision solutions, proudly showcased its latest innovation in real-time underwater stereo vision at the 11th Annual Maritime Security West Conference. The system can be configured for 1000m, 6000m, or full ocean depth (12,000m) operations.

A new NATO-funded initiative aims to make the internet less vulnerable to disruption by rerouting the flow of information into space in the event that undersea cables are attacked or accidentally severed. The $2.5 million project, launched on 31 July 2024, was partially funded by NATO’s Science for Peace and Security programme (SPS).

A new team is heading up the organisation of SPE Offshore Europe (OE) at RX Global, in partnership with SPE, in the biennial event next being held at P&J Live, Aberdeen, UK from 2-5 September 2025.

The Ocean Exploration Trust’s (OET) Exploration Vessel (E/V) Nautilus sets sail today on its fifth expedition of 2024: E Mamana Ou Gataifale I (NA164). This expedition includes multi-vehicle exploration of midwater ecosystems across American Samoan waters.

During a recent deep water trials campaign in Madeira, an ecoSUBm25-Science autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) was launched and successfully completed a spiral behavior to provide vertical profiling of the water column down to 2,000 m depth and back again.

Teledyne Gavia announces the significant expansion of its Engineering and Production facilities in Kopavogur, Iceland, in response to the increased demand for both low logistics Gavia class systems and larger the Osprey and SeaRaptor Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs).

Greensea IQ, a leader in advanced technology for ocean robotics, is proud to announce the launch of two groundbreaking products: IQNS and IQNS Mini. These advanced edge processing systems are designed to elevate the capabilities, scale, and scope of underwater robots in defense applications using EOD Workspace with superior GNCC (Guidance, Navigation, Command, and Control) and onboard AI/ML (Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning) processing.