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Bluefin Robotics 237 Putnam Avenue, Cambridge, MA USA 02139
Tel: 617-715-7082; Fax: 617-498-0067
E-mail: [email protected]
CEO: Dr. Brian Abraham
Number of Employees: 65
Annual sales: $10 million
Starting in 1989, the MIT
Autonomous Underwater Vehicle
Laboratory pioneered AUV platform technologies. The 15-year long pro- gression from the SeaSquirt to the current Bluefin AUV components, power systems and platforms has led to dramatic gains in capability, per- formance, and applicability. Capable of reaching the sea floor and robust enough to be deployed in the
Antarctic and the Labrador Sea, the
Bluefin team has proven that AUVs can be a reliable, affordable tool to the academic, commercial, and mili- tary community. In particular, the
Bluefin AUV is the standard vehicle for the scientific community. Woods
Hole Oceanographic Institution,
Oregon State University, MIT,
MBARI, and Florida Atlantic
University have all placed orders for
AUV systems from Bluefin. Founded in 1997, and headquartered just blocks from the MIT laboratory that created its core UUV technology,
Bluefin Robotics has grown to a 65- employee company whose design, production, and operations facilities occupy two locations in the Boston area. To date, Bluefin has built (or is producing) a total of 40 UUVs for military, commercial and academic customers. Bluefin's AUV technology is built on 15 years of effort and over $40 million of AUV R&D funding.
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Since 1999, Bluefin has been a prof- itable organization and has expanded its product portfolio to include sever- al classes of vehicles and peripheral
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