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Kraken Completes Successful Sonar Trials with U.S. Navy’s Naval Undersea Warfare Center

May 17, 2013 - via Kraken Sonar Systems

Kraken’s AquaPix® InSAS demonstrated the capability of generating high resolution imagery to ranges as distant as 200 metres from the sensor.

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High-tech, Remote-controlled Vessels Gather Data in Lake Ontario

May 15, 2013 - via State University of New York

ESF participates through Great Lakes Research Consortium

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Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUV) Launching in Lake Ontario

May 14, 2013 - via New York Sea Grant

AUVs Will Collect Five-Year Great Lakes Research Data

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OCEANS'13 MTS/IEEE San Diego Call for Abstracts

May 8, 2013 - via IEEE/OES

Deadline Extended to May 17, 2013

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Underwater robot will let UGA researcher probe Gulf Stream eddies

May 6, 2013 - via Online Athens

A University of Georgia marine scientist will explore the edges of the Gulf Stream with the university’s first robotic submersible

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EU Marie Curie fund backs research into underwater robotics

May 3, 2013 - via Herriot Watt

The Robocademy fellows will push the state-of-the-art in the area of robust, reliable and autonomous underwater robots.

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Sturgeon search

May 3, 2013 - via University of Delaware

Scientists use satellites, underwater robot to study Atlantic sturgeon migrations

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ONR Provides Blueprint for Controlling All Military Unmanned Systems

May 3, 2013 - via Office of Naval Research

The Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) Control Segment (UCS) software can be added to any unmanned system to enable it to communicate and work with any other. It will run on any type of platform or hardware, and it can overlay existing systems running on propriety software to make them work with any others.

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EU Marie Curie fund backs research into underwater robotics

May 3, 2013 - via Herriot Watt

The Robocademy fellows will push the state-of-the-art in the area of robust, reliable and autonomous underwater robots.

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Marlin Completed First Commercial Autonomous Subsea Structure Inspection

May 2, 2013 - via Lockheed Martin

The Marlin System completed the first commercial autonomous subsea structure inspections in the Gulf of Mexico in the summer of 2012.

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“Truly amazing” AUV shaves weeks off surveying

April 29, 2013 - via Decomm World

Last year the “Marlin” (pictured), a 10-foot long AUV developed recently by Lockheed Martin logged more than 62 hours of submerged operations, covering 72 miles of seabed.

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Saab Seaeye Opens Largest Indoor Test Facility (Sweden)

April 26, 2013 - via Subsea World News

The company sees the new facility bringing significant savings in time and costs, whilst offering a unique opportunty to develop and trial underwater systems

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WFS Introduces Contactless Power Solution for Recharging Underwater

April 26, 2013 - via Subsea World News

The WPT (Wireless Power Transfer) solution enables contactless recharging or powering of equipment in demanding offshore environments, avoiding wet mate/stab connections at depth and reducing electrical failure.

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Liquid Robotics’ Wave Glider Autonomous Ocean Robot Wins Gold at Edison Awards

April 26, 2013 - via Liquid Robotics

Liquid Robotics was honored for the creation of the world’s first wave powered autonomous ocean robot, powered solely by the planet’s endless supply of wave and solar energy.

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Viterbi students program underwater gliders

April 25, 2013 - via Daily Trojan

Doctoral student researchers in several fields are collaborating to explore the possibilities of engineering, computer science and biology through the use of autonomous underwater vehicles.

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Dream Li-ioning: Nanotech Cure for Lithium-Ion Battery Fires Being Researched

April 24, 2013 - via Motor Trend

A nano-technological cure under development proposed smearing a thin coating of nanospheres on either the anode or the separator layer to serve as a sub-microscopic fire brigade.

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AUV Mission in Saanich Inlet Delivers Test Data Set

April 24, 2013 - via University of Victoria

The main objective of the mission was to fully assess capabilities of the mini-sub.

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Navy undersea warfare researchers to purchase additional REMUS 100 UUV from Hydroid Inc.

April 23, 2013 - via Hydroid

NUWC officials plan to release a formal request for quote (RFQ) to Hydroid around 1 May.

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Underwater Robots Help Scientists demystify the Ocean

April 23, 2013 - via USC Viterbi

Early warning system: USC Viterbi students deploy robots to help marine biologists better predict dangerous ocean activity before it becomes deadly.

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The Trident submarine robot project gains autonomy and is successfully tested at sea

April 19, 2013 - via Asociación RUVID

"Trident demonstrates the feasibility to attack the problem of intervention in the context of the search and retrieval of any object at an autonomous level regardless of this object.

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