Dive Technologies has formally extended partnership with Kraken Robotics to build a commercial autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) for deep subsea cable and infrastructure inspections and geophysical surveys.
Kraken Robotics has received a second order from Teledyne Gavia to equip the SeaRaptor autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) with its AquaPix SAS Sonar. To remind, last week Kraken revealed it had secured a new order for AquaPix, but did not disclose the client’s name. The sonar will be featured on th
Canadian Kraken Robotics has received an order for the AquaPix sonar from an American autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) manufacturer. The 3,000-meter rated AquaPix MINSAS 120 Synthetic Aperture Sonar is expected to be delivered to the client this year. Kraken did not reveal the name of the client
Canadian government has awarded funding to several projects that could help reduce greenhouse gas emissions from Newfoundland and Labrador’s offshore oil & gas operations, including a project using floating wind turbines to power oil & gas assets. The project, being developed by floating wind techno
Canadian shipping company Canada Steam Ship Lines (CSL) will be testing second generation biodiesel on half of its fleet over the course of the 2021 navigation season — a first for the Great Lakes shipping industry.
USV manufacturer Saildrone has launched a 22-metre version of its uncrewed surface vehicles, known as saildrones. Powered by wind and solar energy, saildrones are capable of missions of up to 12 months in the open ocean. The latest and largest version is also the first in the Surveyor class of USVs,
The partnership targets zero-emission shipping markets with next-generation redox flow batteries.
Teledyne CARIS has secured funding from Canada’s Ocean Supercluster award to develop software for remote operations survey processing. A Teledyne Technologies company said that this is in alignment with its leading AI strategy. Teledyne CARIS’ project aims at three targeted deliverables: The enhance
Canada’s Ocean Supercluster is supporting XOCEAN-led XO-G2 project which aims to develop the next generation survey platform in the form of uncrewed surface vessels (USV). With increased demand on the ocean for aquaculture, harvesting metals and energy extraction, companies need safer, lower cost, c
Kraken Robotics has completed its third offshore data acquisition and technology demonstration campaign as part of the $19-million OceanVision project. During this campaign the Canadian ocean tech company deployed its new SeaScout system. The system consists of Kraken’s KATFISH towed synthetic apert
Boston-based subsea robotics firm Dive Technologies recently completed sea trials of a Large Displacement Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (LD-AUV), powered by Kraken Robotics pressure tolerant batteries. As a result, Kraken expects further contracts with Dive for additional batteries in 2020 and beyon
Canada’s ocean tech company Kraken Robotics has closed its previously announced “bought deal” short form prospectus offering of common shares. The company sold a total of 15,500,000 common shares at a price of 67 cents per common share for gross proceeds of close to $10.4 million inclusive of the pa
Alcatel Submarine Networks, part of Nokia, has won the Eastern Arctic Undersea Fiber Optic Network (EAUFON) contract. This contract, funded by the Kativik Regional Government, (KRG), a supramunicipal body with jurisdiction over the territory of Québec, will connect five communities in northern Québe
Canada’s Ocean Startup Challenge has shortlisted 31 companies to compete for 10 prizes of $25,000 and in-kind support from partners. “Applicants accepted our challenge by proposing creative solutions to solve industry hurdles, with more than a third of the shortlisted companies having ocean technolo
