Autonomous ships that can deploy uncrewed underwater vehicles could be used to examine pipelines, cables and seabed drilling activity without inspectors having to leave the shore.
Engineers are developing a fleet of 85-metre-long vessels that will deploy underwater vehicles for tasks like pipeline inspection while their operators remain onshore.the Panama Canal largely uncrewed. The new fleet, however, is being developed to be robotic from the outset, a first for vessels of this size.
Norwegian shipbuilding firm VARD is constructing the six multi-purpose offshore vessels for marine robotics company Ocean Infinity, based in Southampton, UK. The vessels have a …App + Web
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