Category: Tech Space

So innovative! The team at Blue Trail Engineering custom-built an underwater pan and tilt system for a customer for a camera and twin lasers.

Tested to 600m and cost <$3,000USD. WELL DONE!

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