The Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) has teamed up with Kongsberg Maritime and Statoil to develop swimming robots for subsea inspection and light intervention.
The deal is with Eelume, a spin-off company of NTNU, and aims to accelerate new technology which will significantly reduce costs related to subsea inspection maintenance and repair operations.
The idea is to let the robots do inspection and light intervention jobs on the seabed and reduce the use of large and expensive vessels.
The Eelume robots will be permanently installed on the seabed and will perform planned and on-demand inspections and interventions.
Statoil’s Chief technology officer Elisabeth Birkeland Kvalheim said:“Eelume is a good example of how new technology and innovation contributes to cost reduction. Instead of using large and expensive vessels for small jobs, we now introduce a flexible robot acting as a self going janitor on the seabed.
“To support smaller companies in bringing new technology to the market is an important part of our research portfolio.”
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