'Eeluminating' the subsea sector

摘要

With glowing red LED eyes' and a flexible, serpentine body that easily cuts through the water, the Eelume makes an undeniably nightmarish (or distinctly cool, depending on your bent) first impression. However, rather than sinking artificial fangs into ocean-going prey, this bot has been developed to assist offshore teams in undertaking underwater intervention and inspection tasks. The Eelume was developed by Kongsberg in cooperation with Statoil and Eelume, which was founded in 2015 as a spin-off team from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). Approximately a decade in development, the Eelume bot is designed to reside permanently underwater, thereby sparing companies the expense of repeatedly hiring dive support vessels and the effort of having to continually launch and retrieve ROVs and AUVS for separate missions.