Intelligence on machines that act
Sector
Uncrewed surface and underwater vessels, autonomous shipping and the ports and offshore industries adopting them.
Kraken Technology's uncrewed surface vessels are heading to the Royal Marines, US Special Operations and — via a Rheinmetall joint venture — the German line. The company's rise is a case study in how maritime autonomy became NATO's fastest-moving procurement story.
No GPS, no comms, no rescue: polar science has quietly become the proving ground for autonomous underwater vehicles — and the lessons flowing out of Greenland and Antarctica are the same ones navies are paying for.
A robot dog running 70% of the rounds at an oil-sands site. An ROV that stays down for a month. Autonomy in energy isn't chasing headlines — it's removing humans from height, depth and hazardous atmospheres, and the economics are unusually honest.
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