Category: Tech Space

Appropriately named the Lamprey, a new multi-mission AUV from Lockheed Martin attaches itself to other marine vessels to slip into contested waters for intelligence gathering, surveillance, and reconnaissance, multi-stream data collection, and seabed equipment deployment. It even has a built-in hydrogenerator to recharge its batteries while “hitching a ride”

Full article at: NextGenDefence 10feb26

VROV simulator, developed by GRi Simulations, accurately reproduces the operation of ROVs and their interaction with complex structures. THis system allows technician training, rehearsal of real intervention scenarios and validation of procedures to be used at sea.

Full article at: INSPENET 17dec25

A big shout out and THANK YOU to Sam H at WPI Automata Lab for this documentation on how to network multiple vehicles, i.e. BlueBoat and BlueROV2s:

https://discuss.bluerobotics.com/t/networking-multiple-vehicles-a-guide/21763

Elwave’s advanced electromagnetic sensing technology is helping ROVs in turbid and low visibility environments. Special sensors improve the detection, localization, and characterization of both metallic and non-metallic underwater and buried targets, including steel, aluminium, and fiberglass composites.

Full article at: Marine Technology New 14feb25

We aren’t sure how this concept works but researchers at Beihang University claim to have developed a small, battery-operated, underwater drone that can not only withstand the pressures of the Mariana Trench but uses the pressure to propel itself.

The drone can also change its shape for various tasks, like using its fins to swim and glide through the water and then switching to legs for crawling along the ocean bed, like a crab.

Full article at: TheSunUK 25mar25