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The March of M

NotiloPlus’ Seasam AUV during a demonstration.

Photo: NotiloPlus

By Elaine Maslin growing battalion of small, in turn driving smaller technologies that manned systems in the offshore space, compact systems is march- support them. The result is a few new held by Norway’s Equinor, in Tau, near ing in on the subsea world, kids on the block and what you could Stavanger, in October 2019.

A in some ways making it a call a rising march of miniaturisation. bigger space for more to enter. Smaller They span from vehicle manufactur- NotiloPlus remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) and ers to acoustic and optical sensor system Starting with the vehicle manufactur- smaller autonomous underwater vehi- makers. A number of these attended a ers, one was NotiloPlus, a French start- cles (AUVs) are growing in number and demonstration event focused on un- up, founded in 2016, that’s producing a

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