Blue Robotics

The Mantis This BlueROV2, appropriately named the Mantis (explanation to follow), is the robot child of Marine Applied Research and Exploration - MARE. MARE is a nonprofit organization using their robotic fleet to explore and document deep-water ecosystems in support of their conservation and management. To date, they have mapped over 2,700 kilometers of seafloor off California’s coast alone! Here is the story behind the name:... "The Mantis Shrimp is a brightly-colored, fierce predator. It has one of the fastest punches in the animal kingdom, which allows them to feast on hard-shelled invertebrates and some fish! This punch is even powerful enough to break through aquarium tanks. And they are thought to have the most complex eyes in the animal kingdom allowing them to detect not just visible, but ultraviolet and polarized light."

Helloooo, Bruce. Recorded by Dr. Vincent Raoult and Prof. Troy Gaston, this footage was taken with the The University of Newcastle, Australia's BlueROV2 during a shark feed at Norfolk Island! Dr. Raoult identified these sharks as Galapagos Whalers, explaining they have "learned to associate regular fish processing with an easy meal and have done so for decades."... Check out the 360 video! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UCP1AO8zcQ&feature=youtu.be

For the lone wolf. Created by SEABER, YUCO is a high performance, low maintenance, micro-AUV and is designed to meet the specific needs of oceanographic researchers. Rated to 300m, YUCO can run autonomously for up to ten hours and only weighs about 20 lbs, making it super easy for a single person to operate and travel with!

All aboard! Bodekull, also known as the Dalarö wreck, is one of the world’s best preserved 17th-century wrecks. Lying near Edesön island off Dalarö, the ship sank in 1678 on its way to provide flour to the Swedish Navy. The 20m ship was discovered in 2003 with 6 gun ports, two masts still standing, and many other objects including pottery, glass bottles, tools, and hand weapons. In this photo, the BlueROV2, operated by our friends at Dykcharter vrakdykning, is documentin...g marine archeologists diving on the wreck site! If you are not already familiar with Dykcharter, they are a really neat company offering wreck diving tours out of Sweden. Check out the footage from the BlueROV2 here: https://youtu.be/Psh8klQ0O-U Editing: Jim Hansson, Wreck Museum of Wrecks.

Stay salty, my friends. Our friends and distributors in Israel, Astral Subsea, have been conducting salt-crystal camera tests at the bottom of the Dead Sea. This is their first test of an upgraded observations system that will shoot a time-lapse for a week of salt-crystals growing at the bottom of the sea! Last week they tested focus abilities of their camera and lens; next they will be testing depth! Who else has had the opportunity to explore the Dead Sea?!

Baby blue is leaving the nest... Thanks to our friends and partners in Japan, Six Voice (@), for always taking the edgiest bot shots.

Device Connected Communicating underwater has been and will always be a prioritized topic of interest in our industry. Although we have acoustic, radio, and wired communication options, all have their limitations with much room for improvement. However, Hydromea is making waves with their innovative solution: an underwater modem that communicates through light. This modem (called LUMA) converts data into light pulses, giving you a quick, wireless, underwater connection. LU...MA is rated to 6000m and can send and receive signals up to 50m away using pulses of blue light which diffuse at a much slower rate than other waves, such as the red and yellow waves of the sun. Check out the full story and video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeSrJgPFWV0&feature=emb_logo

Paradise is a boatyard sunset and an ROV. Congrats to our longtime friends and partners, JM Robotics, on the release of their JMHD1! This ROV system is designed to cope with cold waters and is rated for up to 400m! It comes with a 3Kw Topside Power System with web-based earth fault monitoring and is ready for most sonar and positioning systems! Congrats, friends! You're killing it.

Start 'em young. Thank you to our friend and partner in South Africa, Chris Fraser at ROV Africa, for sending us this photo of himself and his newborn daughter in their Blue Robotics gear! We are definitely feeling the love from across the pond!

What is an estuary? Estuaries are partially enclosed bodies of water where freshwater river runoff mixes with the saltwater of the ocean. They are among the most biologically productive areas on earth, sustaining a diverse biological community of plants and animals. There are more than 100 estuaries along the coast of the United States. Join us tomorrow through Thursday for the 2020 National Coastal and Estuarine Virtual Summit (Restore America's Estuaries) where you can ...network, share, and hear from experts on the latest in coastal restoration and management. We will have a booth available to visit all week and we will be in there for discussion this Wednesday from 8-10am PT! https://estuaries.org/summit/registration/

"Whoa, dude. Mister Turtle is my father. The name's Crush." - Crush, Finding Nemo This ROV is having some fun with the sea turtles at Kélonia on Réunion Island! What sea creatures has your ROV had the pleasure of meeting? : Sky & Sea Gramer

A look into a diver's world. : ntzoulis Dimitris

Okay, so we may have been kind of cheated out of the 2020 competition season, but now we'll be twice as ready for 2021 and MATE is already getting started! MATE has been hosting virtual events with experts all week to get you and your team excited for the 2021 MATE ROV Competition season! There are still two webinars left and you can check them out live on MATE's Facebook page!

Ready the troops. Fall may be approaching in the states, but it's spring in Australia and Blueprint Lab is putting in some serious testing time! Here we have a couple Reach Bravos on a SAAB Seaeye Falcon and the Ozbot Mk8 Unmanned Ground Vehicle, accompanied by a fleet of BlueROV2s ready for Reach Alpha testing!

Something lurks in the deep... Shout out to Holdfast Marine Solutions for this awesome silhouette of their BlueROV2 on a seawater ballast tank inspection!

Friends are the family we choose. We have always viewed our community of distributors as a treasured extension of the Blue Robotics family. They bring invaluable knowledge, innovation, support, and service to our team and we wouldn't be the company we are today without them. If you are unfamiliar with our distributors (or even if you are), please check out our latest blog post, "Top 5 Reasons to Purchase from a Blue Robotics Distributor" for an inside look at the work... they do and the value they may bring to you. https://bluerobotics.com/benefits-of-purchasing-through-a-/ : (Six Voice, Japan)

Improvise. Adapt. Overcome. -Bear Grylls Our buddy Peter at Poseidon Robotics brought his Lanai ROV up to LA this weekend for some socially distanced testing! As a few of us at Blue Robotics are still working from home, we figured we might as well take advantage of Daniel's pool.

17 Stormo Incursori Our Italian family, SORS - Ricerche Speciali, never ceases to amaze us with their dedication to creating the perfect BlueROV2 for a given mission. This particular ROV was custom built with a 300m depth rating and increased autonomy for the rescuers and divers of the 17th Raiders Wing - The Italian Air Force special forces unit located in Furbara, Italy.