Originally published at: https://bluerobotics.com/underwater-drones/ Underwater robots have been an important tool for marine science, exploration, and work for the past thirty or forty years. We’ve become familiar with terms like ROV and AUV to describe types of subsea vehicles and these terms…

I have been working professionally with ROV for 20 years. I find that those who refer to them using the term drone are usually consumers or people new to this technology. Personally I find the term ROV to be too generic while underwater drone is a much better fit. That said, I think it will take y…

…ROV pays Wayy better :wink: …but im impressed what you have done, and so courious what the future will bring, both hardware and software :wink: …the possibillities are soo many :wink: …definetly upgraded to ROV with the Topside power ! :wink:

Great detail in the article, thanks for posting. Enough data and events here to make a nice diagram ! My experience has been when when you say to people underwater drone they have an idea of what it means, where as saying “we used an ROV” needs a bit of explaining, so as a marketing aid I guess the…

Just noticed the term “Underwater Drone” in the most recent issue of ROV Planet , however, here it was used to describe a large work-class ROV rather than a small, inexpensive ROV. [Screen Shot 2020-01-28 at 6.30.13 AM]

And in the industry newsletter, i-Tech 7 talks about “Drones of the Future” on page 20/21, both a dedicated UAV (the AIV) and semi-automonous with “operator in the loop” … [image] Subsea UK News - September 2019 Issue BP: All Underwater Inspections Performed by Remotely Operated Systems…

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