autonomous unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs) with integrated sensors and processing. Since the company’s beginnings, its vehicles have featured a free-? ooded design with open architecture that permits in- tegration with a variety of sensors and payloads to be adapt- ed to any mission. The open architect
Clearing the beach with the Bayo- net 250. Photo Bayonet The autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) Cuttle? sh, developed at DFKI, serves as the robotic test platform. The AUV has two deep-sea capable gripping systems for ? exible handling of objects underwater. Thanks to its design and AI- based control
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Vessels Innovative new vessels, technologies and concepts Hybrid Research Vessel ing the unique conditions of the Red Sea. The existing ship for Snow & Company in Seattle, Wash., started construction on KAUST is nearly 22-years-old, originally designed as a ? sh- a 15m hybrid, Incat Crowther-designed
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notches with retractable self-stowing rails will be impressed current anti-corrosion devices will protect the incorporated into the port and starboard bulwarks adja- M3’s hull in Santa Cruz Harbor’s electrical environment. cent to the cockpit to facilitate boarding and recoveries. The new M3 monohull walkaround
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AUTONOMOUS OPERATIONS Photo courtesy Rolls-Royce Rolls-Royce’s Intelligent Awareness (IA) system uses data collection to enhance navigational safety and operational ef? ciency. Rajant’s Kinetic Mesh ensures the mobile con- nectivity ports need to function fully and securely. Advances in sensor technology
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SPILL RESPONSE A skimmer is tested in oil slick thicknesses ranging from 2-inches to 1/8-inch ations of equipment and remediation techniques that en- able rapid and ef? cient response to an actual spill. “We are the intermediate step between small-scale bench testing and open water testing,” says Paul
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