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cations – terrestrial and underwater – to The ? rm is also commercializing the various plans for a new breed of greener support the ability to operate without an manipulator it designed for Aquanaut as offshore vessels. There is still a contract umbilical. While satellite communica- a standalone product to sell. “Building with them, but delivery dates have been tions are there, the rollout of the likes Aquanaut was like a moon shot engi- pushed out, he says Radford.

of Starlink will provide more inexpen- neering activity and there was a bunch While there have been delays – build- sive ways to transmit more data to the of spin out technologies that are ? nding ing the Hydronauts has been hit by de- surface, says Radford. For through- their own independent revenue streams, lays getting hold of aluminum – Radford water communications, Nauticus has whether it’s the software stack called is ? red up. “We are here to make the been working with Schlumberger, from Toolkit that runs everything or all the biggest impact in the ocean economy whom Nauticus has licensed use of an way down to just the manipulator,” says through the deployment of this robotic underwater modem previously tested Radford. “There weren’t really any elec- navy,” he says. “Now we’ve also transi- from a DriX USV to receive video from tric manipulators in the market, so we tioned to a public facing entity, we’re on an AUV. It’s also been work with Singa- decided to ? ll that gap made our ? rst de- the NASDAQ and everyone here is ? red pore-based Subnero. livery to IKM (in Norway).” That’s been up about it.”

Subnero has been developing software through some development work with He also hopes that Nauticus’ invest- de? ned underwater acoustic modems IKM and now the ? rst production batch ment will be part of a wider surge in for communications, networking, navi- has now started, he says. investment in the ocean space, which gation and monitoring, which it calls Earlier this year the ? rm also agreed spending has been dwarfed by other

Wireless Networked Communications to work with Stinger AS, a special- sectors, not least space technology. (WNC). Recent testing with Nauticus ist underwater technology ? rm, also in There are also barriers to entry – the has included the ability of their WNC Norway. The details of that are being cost to develop ocean technology, for to dynamically adapt to provide the best worked on, says Radford. Nauticus also example. But Radford hopes to over- performance in a given environment. had an agreement with Triumph Sub- come that, ? nding both funding and

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