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Karl Kenny

Kenny

Kraken Robotics

By Greg Trauthwein

Karl Kenny and Kraken Robotics are Data Analytics as a Service (DaaS); subsea industry stakeholders.

on a mission to revolutionize the way Digital Twins – Karl Kenny and his Kenny is pushing hard to ensure that business is conducted subsea. It’s about Kraken Robotics team are embarked on his company continually evolves the high-quality data, collected, delivered a plan to grow, but it’s a growth trajec- technology, particularly the ability to and analyzed more regularly, liber- tory that’s bigger than one company, one work more ef? ciently and to ‘see’ better ally shared among a disparate group of product, one service; it’s a growth tra- underwater, as he understands that the stakeholders, from science to commerce jectory as big as the oceans themselves. quality of data starts with its collection: to military. It’s about tossing out old But make no mistake, while the product “Garbage in, garbage out,” says Kenny, norms and embracing different ways of and service platform of Kraken contin- who worked at Microsoft before it was doing business. ues to grow diverse, Kraken’s focus is a public company. Kenny thinks big, be-

Underwater vehicle platforms; ad- laser sharp: build a complete vertical yond the con? nes of his company and vanced sensor technology and compo- subsea platform, that is scalable, to help his Canadian home.

nents; Robotics as a Service (RaaS); bring about meaningful change for all The subsea industry is about a genera- www.marinetechnologynews.com

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