Unmanned submarine and sonar maker Kraken Robotics has become the first company to receive approval for an R&D project from Canada’s Ocean Supercluster.
The St. John’s-based company said it will oversee the $20 million development of the OceanVision system, which will allow clients to lease unmanned submarines to conduct seafloor surveys and store the data in the cloud. The Ocean Supercluster will contribute as much as $5.9 million over the next three years to the project.
The Ocean Supercluster is an Atlantic Canadian partnership between the federal government and the private sector that