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Blue Robotics

Greensea Systems www.bluerobotics.com www.greensea.com

Since its founding in 2014, Blue Robotics has existed to

Greensea Systems is a leader in advanced robotic systems propel marine robotics. Starting with the T100 Thruster, for high-level tasking, interoperability, and intervention. its product line has grown to more than 250 components.

Greensea’s OPENSEA operating platform provides a fully-

Since opening six years ago, it has shipped hundreds of distributed, open software framework for highly integrated thousands of components and systems, including more systems across all brands of sensors, devices, and equipment than 45,000 thrusters and 2,000 BlueROV2s. In the while cutting-edge technologies for navigation and autono- last 12 months, Blue Robotics added to its product line my elevate system intelligence. One cohesive operator in- while building its distributor team globally. It hosted terface, Workspace, fuses system data into a comprehensive its second Blue Robotics Open House to bring together command and control center for streamlined work? ow and marine robotics enthusiasts, including a mini trade show improved productivity. Greensea’s commercial products are featuring six young marine tech companies. It also in- customizable and all systems are supported with documenta- troduced several new products including the Ping360, a tion and knowledgeable, ? eld-experienced engineers.

mechanical scanning sonar and a surface power supply

Greensea continues signi? cant growth through the accep- in collaboration with Outland Technology.

tance of its open architecture software platform, OPENSEA,

Blue Robotics’ product line spans a wide range of tech- and world-wide adoption of OPENSEA-based products for nology areas with a common theme of cost-consciousness, military applications. Greensea supports manufacturers and innovative design drawing inspiration from proven tech- software developers through its OPENSEA as a Platform nologies, and extensive documentation and information.

and OEM business segments, providing OPENSEA as an

Its core technology is its patented thruster design, open architecture solution for developing and manufacturing which is compact and inherently pressure tolerant, with robotics and emerging technologies. Greensea services the an emphasis on affordability. In addition to thrusters, it defense industry in two primary programs: robotics for mari- offers actuators, watertight enclosures, buoyancy foam, time Explosive Ordnance Disposal and Special Operations sensors, lights, cables, control system electronics, so-

Forces combat swimming. Greensea launched a new business nars, and its ? agship product, the BlueROV2 subsea segment for ship hull robotics, based on a novel navigation vehicle, designed to be the most affordable and capable and autonomy solution for robots crawling on a hull.

mini-ROV in the world. In the last year, the company

Greensea expanded operations in 2019 adding of? ces in has added new products including the Ping360 mechan- ical scanning sonar.

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