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Leaders in

Autonomous Shipping

By William Stoichevski urther ahead than most is Trondheim- vastly more expensive options like crews and six- based Maritime Robotics, builder of ? gure day rates. A Maritime Robotics deal with unmanned surface vessels, or USVs. Seabed Geosolutions introduced the ? rst USV for

FTheir designs already represent business in? eld seismic surveys, where typically gigantic streams: the 6 feet by 3 ft. catamaran Otter is vessels might represent too much “risk”. Other, tipped to be “mass produced” for ? sh-farm opera- science-based clients have needed water-analysis, tions; the Mariner is available for offshore survey wind, inspection or survey work.

and supply. Both vessels are in-? eld, data-acqui- The larger Mariner — an enclosed RIB-like sition “platforms” that save money by replacing vessel built locally — can acquire data for mili-

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