Maritime Autonomous Systems News

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24 June 2025

Robosys Automation Launches New Software Autopilot, VOYAGER AI SMARTPILOT™

Robosys Automation has unveiled its new VOYAGER AI SMARTPILOT™ software autopilot at the Autonomous Ship Expo in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

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16 June 2025

Uncrewed Survey Solutions (USS) Announces Expansion With Key Appointments Driven By Organisational Growth

Uncrewed Survey Solutions (USS) has announced three key appointments in support of its ongoing growth strategy

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4 June 2025

Frazer-Nash Consultancy at the Heart of the UK’s Largest Multi-Domain AI Defence Trial

Frazer-Nash Consultancy played a central role in coordinating WINTERMUTE 3, the UK’s largest multi-domain AI defence trial. The exercise gathered critical data to advance automatic target recognition technologies across land, air, and sea platforms.

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4 June 2025

Come Onboard for the MCA’s Maritime Autonomous Surface Ships Meeting

The Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) will host an online stakeholder engagement meeting on 2nd July 2025 to discuss Maritime Autonomous Surface Ships (MASS) under 24 metres.

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30 April 2025

Scientists Explore Role of High-Temperature Fluid Flow in Explosivity of Giant Underwater Volcanoes

Scientists from the UK’s National Oceanography Centre (NOC) have led an international team on a groundbreaking expedition to enhance our ability to forecast and understand the hazards posed by Earth’s most explosive volcanic eruptions.

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23 April 2025

Kongsberg Discovery On Board with One Ocean Expedition for Ambitious Year-Long Research Voyage

Kongsberg Discovery has helped transform the 111-year-old, three-masted sailing ship Statsraad Lehmkuhl into a state-of-the-art research vessel for the upcoming One Ocean Expedition

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9 April 2025

NOC Launches New Innovation Hub to Power Ocean Tech and Blue Economy

The UK’s National Oceanography Centre (NOC) has unveiled an ambitious new Innovation Hub in Southampton, designed to accelerate advances in ocean technology and support sustainable growth across the blue economy.

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8 April 2025

European Research Institute to Acquire NOC Autonomous Underwater Vehicles

A leading European research, technology and innovation organisation has chosen cutting edge underwater robotics from the UK’s National Oceanography Centre (NOC) to help advance its marine research capabilities

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3 April 2025

BMT and ATLAS ELEKTRONIK UK collaborate to advance autonomous maritime navigation with SEAS testing

BMT has successfully partnered with ATLAS ELEKTRONIK UK (AEUK) to advance autonomous maritime navigation by utilising BMT’s proprietary Synthetic Environment Assurance Service (SEAS) testbed.

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24 March 2025

Sonardyne revolutionises small marine robotics navigation with launch of SPRINT-Nav U

Sonardyne International Ltd announces the launch of SPRINT-Nav U, the world's smallest hybrid acoustic-inertial navigator designed specifically for compact marine robotic platforms.

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