WAM-V® Included in Autonomous Robotic System Development The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) recently announced it has received $750,000 in funding from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to develop next‐generation autonomous robotic technology for...
Ocean Power Technologies is growing! OPT announced today the acquisition of Marine Advanced Robotics, Inc. (MAR), a San Francisco Bay Area -based developer and manufacturer of autonomous surface vehicles (ASVs). This acquisition immediately provides OPT with an...
The Naval Postgraduate School’s (NPS) Sea Land Air Military Research (SLAMR) Initiative has released a new video scenario that incorporates OPT’s PB3 PowerBuoy® playing a key role as a forward deployed power and communications gateway. In the clip, OPT’s autonomous...
“Offshore wind and ocean energy in general [should] play a bigger role in the U.S. in the next decade, just as it has … in other parts of the world,” said OPT CEO Philipp Stratmann today during the first day of the Energy 2050 Summit. Stratmann appeared as a presenter...
“Working offshore is notoriously difficult and exceptionally dangerous,” OPT President and CEO Philipp Stratmann tells Fortune. “The barriers to entry for maritime technology are just so much higher [than onshore technology].” Stratmann is quoted in Fortune’s latest...
Nextgov has published an op-ed co-written by OPT CEO Philipp Stratmann and Fathom5 founder and CEO Zac Staples calling for government support for improving maritime cybersecurity. “Tapping the expertise of the private sector can help government agencies defend against...
