HOUSTON —Nauticus Robotics Inc. has been awarded a contract with Petrobras to deploy Aquanaut. Nauticus' autonomous subsea robot will support Petrobras’ offshore activities.
Aquanaut will be used in Petrobras’ deepwater production field using supervised autonomy for infield inspection services. The contract consists of about two months of subsea inspection time and is one of the largest awarded contracts of its kind to date worldwide, Nauticus said.
The fully electric Aquanaut carries an array of multi-spectral perception sensors that allow the robot to detect, classify, inspect and act upon subsea infrastructure using its pair of manipulators without direct operator control. Nauticus says this method provides significant cost and greenhouse-gas emissions reductions over conventional methods.
