Fugro has opened a new remote operations center (ROC) in St. John’s, Canada, which will be used for controlling offshore survey operations. According to Fugro, the St. John’s ROC will serve offshore energy and other marine-based clients whose work in Canada often involves harsh operating conditions
Canada’s Ocean Supercluster is allocating around $3 million for a project to develop an uncrewed surface vessel (USV) based subsea inspection solution for offshore wind farms. With a total project value of nearly $6.7 million, the Autonomous Remote Offshore Wind Inspection, Navigation and Deployment
Canadian marine technology company Kraken Robotics has signed a definitive agreement to acquire 3D acoustic imaging specialist PanGeo Subsea. PanGeo’s assets consist primarily of human capital, know-how and equipment comprised mostly of sub-bottom imaging units and acoustic imaging units that are us
Unmanned technology systems operator and integrator DroneQ Robotics has signed a partnership with Canadian remotely operated vehicle (ROV) developer SEAMOR Marine to boost ROV solutions.
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
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,
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
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
Innovo has been selected as one of 15 companies to participate in Innovate UK’s Global Business Innovation Programme. The programme, delivered by Enterprise Europe Network, will span activities from September 2020 to July 2021. It will focus on surface and underwater marine robotics systems and tech
Canada’s ocean tech company Kraken Robotics has recently secured contracts with Royal Danish Navy and Polish Navy. The Royal Danish Navy deal will see Kraken supply mine-hunting sonar equipment. Specifically, Kraken will deliver its KATFISH towed Synthetic Aperture Sonar, Tentacle Winch and Autonomo
