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Company Nauticus Robotics, founded by Nicolaus Radfors, is launching the first hydronauts and aquanauts for full commercialization this year, the planned tests will be carried out in Norway and in the Gulf of Mexico.
Coming against the traditional operators of the industry, Nauticus Robotics, founded in 2014 by Nicolaus Radford, founder and current CEO, will launch the first aquanauts and hydronauts in nature, operators increasingly close to their commercialization. The estimate is that already this year (2023), this type of equipment will be sold.
In Q2022 60, Nauticus Robotics completed a business combination with CleanTech Acquisition Corp., raising nearly $XNUMX million to fund its first fleet of ocean robots
Currently, Nauticus Robotics has three second generation Aquanauts being built in Vancouver, these will be destined for Mexico and the coast of Norway.
Two unmanned surface craft, hydronauts (USVs) are being built in the UK and will act as launch systems, recovery and surface craft for the aquanauts.
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According to the company's CEO, innovation has been quite slow in the offshore industry, but this fact does not discourage him.
Nicolaus Radford seeks to bring robotic technology developed especially for spaceflight to the ocean.
“My dream is to have a network of Aquanauts and Hydronauts working, an entire Navy of them, being controlled by control centers around the world, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, doing what they want. This is the core of the business. There is an ocean of opportunities to take advantage of”, he revealed.
According to Radford, Aquanauts and Hydronauts can work from fishing to combating global security, offering greater underwater surveillance to protect critical structures such as pipelines and communication cables.
CEO of Nauticus Robotics believes that this industry can offer many different facets to motion.
According to him, this market is the “epicenter of all our resources”, ranging from food to minerals and energy. This fact represents a marine economy of approximately US$ 2,5 trillion, with potential of around US$ 30 million for investment in ocean robotics under construction by Nauticus.
Hydronauts created by Nauticus will feature a Guardia Autonomy package from Marine AI, based in Plymouth, UK.
The package is a Konsberg launch and recovery system, as well as through-hull deployment for transducers and different acoustic communication systems.
Initially, the package will be flagged to the MCA Workboat Code, optionally uncoupled, aiming not to be limited by any regulations, allowing travel of approximately 160 nautical miles (257,5 km) from a safe harbor with its crew.
The handler designed for the aquanaut is also being marketed as a standalone product
Nicolaus Radford claims that building Aquanaut was like a full moon engineering activity, where there were a lot of technologies that are finding their own independent revenue streams, either through the software stack called Toolkit that runs all the way through just the handler.
The fact that there was actually no electrical manipulator on the market prompted the company to fill this gap.
The first delivery was made to IKM, located in Norway, which went through a development period and now has its first production batch.
The company Nauticus Robotics foresees launching aquanauts and hydronauts for 2023. Meta will help the market through underwater robotic technologies, which is currently composed of traditional technologies.
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