31 Might 2022
by Oishee Majumdar & Nishant Kumar
A pc-generated picture exhibiting the XLUUV being developed by Cellula in partnership with TAS for RAN below the SeaWolf challenge. (Cellula Robotics)
Canadian firm Cellula Robotics, which focuses on creating subsea robotic methods, has been partnering with Australia’s Trusted Autonomous Techniques (TAS) to construct a gas cell-powered extra-large unmanned underwater car (XLUUV) for the Royal Australian Navy (RAN).
Cellula Robotics has been part of the contract “for six months on what’s a 12 month pilot programme”, a spokesperson for the corporate informed Janes.
The programme, which has been named because the SeaWolf challenge, will initially contain the event of a single 12 m prototype hull of the XLUUV, the spokesperson stated.
The proto-hull will probably be demonstrated in a restricted set of trials within the fourth quarter of 2022 or within the first quarter of 2023, the spokesperson added.
Earlier in Might, a media launch by Cellula stated some options of the SeaWolf XLUUV “embrace a mission vary of over 5,000 km powered by a state-of-the-art gas cell energy system and two modular 2,500 litre flooded payload bays”.
