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#Antarctic Ocean | Development


#Data Cosmos | MultiSatellite Data Platform | Open Cosmos


#Quasar | Climate Change Monitoring | Open Cosmos


#Comet System | Antarctic Meteorite | NASA Solar System Exploration


#EPICawi | European Project for Ice Coring in Antarctica


#AntarcticSun | USA Antarctic Program


#Hydro International | Water Processing


#Angus Adventures | Learning Through Exploration


#ScooTech | Swedish Centre for Ocean Observing Technology


#Antarctic Science Platform | Antarctica New Zealand


#Safety4Sea | Safety


#TOS | Antarctic Ice Sheet Modelling


#CreateDigital | Digital Twin of Antarctica


#SailDrone | Ocean Data Solutions with Autonomous Surface Vehicles


#Cool Antarctica | Actual South Pole


#MIT | Interaction of Ocean and Ice


#Raman Oxinst | Spectroscopy


#Horiba | Drilling below the frozen ice of Antarctica


#Waponline | Antarctic info for ham radio


#Neste | Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAS) | Renewable diesel | Renewable feedstock for polymers and chemicals | Developing chemical recycling to combat the plastic waste challenge | Accelerating shifting to circular economy | Creating solutions for migitating climate change


#Facebook | Social Media


#SAS | Antarctic Foods Aquitaine


#HPE | Hewlett Packard Enterprise


#Appian | LowCode Development


#Discovering Antarctica | Mineral Resources


#High seas treaty | International Union for Conservation of Nature | Biodiversity protection | International Seabed Authority | Marine environment threats pollution from coastal infrastructure and dumping | Marine protected areas


#Phys | News


#Conger Ice Shelf Fell Apart | Guardian | CNN


#Atmospheric River Storm | Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes


#Algorithm Detecting Atmospheric Rivers | Nature | News


#Thwaites Glacier | The Conservation


#Doomsday Glacier | Science Alert


#Plastic Soup Foundation | Research


#OceanBlue | Research


#Plastic Oceans | Research


#Ellen Mac Arthur Foundation.


#TheExplorer | Antarctic expeditions


#MIT | Earth System Model


#Safety4sea | Safety


#Climate NASA | Collapsing Ice Shelf Reveals a Possible New Island, Eastern Antarctica


#Lensel Optics | Optics manufacturing


#SeaChange | Ocean conservation


#Global sea levels rising | Water from melting ice sheets and glaciers increasing | Expansion of seawater as it warms | NASA sea level data


#The Arctic Institute | Russian research institute


#Global Change MIT | Research


#IMO | International Maritime Organization


#ArcticOffice | British Antarctic Survey | BAS


#Valeport | Sensors


#Cantium Scientific | MicroBio sampler calibration and repair service


#Aurora Australis | Southern Lights


#Antarctica Gov Au | Australian Antarctic Program


#FsherSci | New England Biolabs


#MonitorMyOcean | World Ocean Network


#PNAS | Sea Ice Control


#EUMetsat | Sea Ice Monitoring


#Sentinel | Satellite | ESA


#Seatech Systems | Special Purpose Vessels | Seatech Engineering


#CEMarin | Corporation Center of Excellence in Marine Sciences


#BAS | British Antarctic Survey


#VLiz | Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee


#NOAA | National Ocean Service


#Ambri | Batteries for clean energy | Liquid Metal Battery | Self heating and regulating | Calcium and antimony as material | Rapid deployment | Scalable | Internal operating temperature 500˚ C | Desert | Arctic | Antarctic | Third Pole | Shipped cells inactive at ambient temperature | Heaters bringing cells to operating temperature | No degradation, air conditioning, replaceable nor any serviceable components | MIT | GroupSadoway Lab | Boston Metal


#Scientific Steering Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)


#ICEYE | Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) | Maritime monitoring


#General Atomics | Air to Air Laser Communication System | Crosslinks from aircraft to other platforms such as unmanned aircraft, maritime vessels, and space systems


#Silica Networks | Datco Group | Feasibility study for linking Ushuaia in Argentina, Peurto Williams near Cape Horn and Antarctica King George Island


#SatelIoT | IoT connectivity over standard 5G NB-IoT


#Wartsila | Ship command systems | Autonomous Short Sea Shipping | Navigation and DP solutions


#Intel | Kapoho Point Board | Four Loihi 2 chips on its top side | Four on its underside | Up to a million neurons | Up to a billion synapses | Up to 8 million variables | Up to 1000× better energy efficiency than a state of the art CPU solver | Stackable up to eight boards | Expansion port on the board | Four boards getting up to 32 million neurons | Drones | Robotics | Gesture recognition | Scene understanding | Smell identification | Solving optimization problems | Research


#U.S. Antarctic Program | Antarctic Sun


#Intel | Neuromorphic computing | Biological neural computation | New algorithmic approaches | Emulating human brain interactions | Spiking neural networks (SNNs) | Simulating natural learning | Dynamically remapping neural networks | Making decisions in response to learned patterns over time | Powering autonomous AI solutions | Supporting energy efficiency and continuous learning | Sensing | Robotics | Healthcare | Large scale AI applications


#SpaceX | Satellite to cellular service


#UPM | UPM Raflatac Ocean Action | Ocean Action label | Made from ocean bound plastic | Creating a demand for reclaiming plastic waste before it pollutes oceans | Chemically recycled plastic | Material Circularity Indicator (MCI) | Ellen MacArthur Foundation | Granta Design | Orthex | Raw material made from used fishing nets


#Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research (INSTAAR) | Researching ice core data to reconstruct seasonal temperatures |Measuring relative abundances of common hydrogen and deuterium along 3,405 meters (11,171 feet) of West Antarctic Ice Sheet Divide core (WDC)


#Minnesota Department of Soil, Water, and Climate | Cable and a huge bandwidth to boost research, logistics & safety, and personal lives of Antarctic missions


#Brazilian Navy | Polar vessel Navio Polar Almirante Saldanha (NPo) | NPo Navio Polar project | Estaleiro Jurong Aracruz shipyard | Three Wartsilä 32 diesel generating sets | Diesel-electric power conversion system | Two bow thruster drive systems | Power Management System by Wartsila | Maintaining Brazil presence in the Antarctic | Ensuring scientific research continuity carried out at Comandante Ferraz Antarctic Station


#Arctic Council | Wildland Fires Initiative | Increasing circumpolar collaboration | Record-breaking fire activity | Better understanding causes and impacts of wildland fires on Arctic ecosystems and communities


#Advanced Navigation | Inertial measurement unit (IMU) | Heading reference system (AHRS) | Acoustic navigation | AI-based acoustic processing techniques | Subsea transponder | Sidney, Australia


#Yamaha Marine | 450 hp hydrogen-powered V-8 outboard | Three 6-foot-long cylindrical-shaped hydrogen fuel tanks | H2 machine operates by using hydrogen in its combustion chambers | H2 tanks are positioned low and centrally to enhance stability | H2 tanks size demands rethinking of future boat designs, hulls specifically tailored for hydrogen storage | Hydrogen storage system adds considerable weight to vessel | Volumetric energy density of hydrogen is lower, requiring larger tanks | Partners: Roush Performance, Regulator Marine


#Feadship | Hydrogen-cell superyacht | Double-walled cryogenic tank in dedicated room | 4 tons of hydrogen | Cruising protected marine zones.| Cryogenic storage of liquefied hydrogen in superyacht interior | No regulations for hydrogen storage and fuel-cell systems on superyacht


#Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC-5) | Developing international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution | Raising awareness about the serious impacts of plastic pollution on both humans and nature | Global bans and phase-outs of the most harmful and problematic plastic products and chemicals | Global product design requirements to ensure all plastic produced is safe to reuse and recycle as part of global non-toxic circular economy


#Tampere University | Pneumatic touchpad | Soft touchpad sensing force, area and location of contact without electricity | Device utilises pneumatic channels | Can be used in environments such as MRI machines | Soft robots | Rehabilitation aids | Touchpad does not need electricity | It uses pneumatic channels embedded in the device for detection | Made entirely of soft silicone | 32 channels that adapt to touch | Precise enough to recognise handwritten letters | Recognizes multiple simultaneous touches | Ideal for use in devices such as MRI machines | If cancer tumours are found during MRI scan, pneumatic robot can take biopsy while patient is being scanned | Pneumatic device can be used in strong radiation or conditions where even small spark of electricity would cause serious hazard


#Allen Institute for Artifical Intelligence | AI for the Environment | Robot planning precise action points to perform tasks accurately and reliably | Vision Language Model (VLM) controlling robot behavior | Introducing automatic synthetic data generation pipeline | Instruction-tuning VLM to robotic domains and needs | Predicting image keypoint affordances given language instructions | RGB image rendered from procedurally generated 3D scene | Computing spatial relations from camera perspective | Generating affordances by sampling points within object masks and object-surface intersections | Instruction-point pairs fine-tune language model | RoboPoint predicts 2D action points from image and instruction, which are projected into 3D using depth map | Robot navigates to these 3D targets with motion planner | Combining object and space reference data with VQA and object detection data | Leveraging spatial reasoning, object detection, and affordance prediction from diverse sources | Enabling to generalize combinatorially.| Synthetic dataset used to teach RoboPoint relational object reference and free space reference | Red and ground boxes as visual prompts to indicate reference objects | Cyan dots as visualized ground truth | NVIDIA | | Universidad Catolica San Pablo | University of Washington


#Astera Labs | Intelligent Connectivity Platform | High-speed connectivity integrated circuits (ICs), modules, boards | Connectivity System Management and Optimization Software | Providing hyperscaler customers ability to deploy and operate high-performance AI and cloud infrastructure | Software-defined IC architecture | Distributed microcontrollers and sensors | Real-time link and device monitoring | Smart Fabric Switches | PCIe 6 fabric switch | Delivering maximum predictable performance to increase GPU utilization | Protocol and performance optimization for increased data transfer efficiency | Real-time telemetry data | Built-in protocol analyzer with link state history and timestamps | Full non-destructive eye scan for RX Lane margining | Self-test features to minimize link downtime and accelerate fault isolation | AI scale-up (GPU-to-GPU) | AI clusters | Generative AI applications | Nvidia supplier


#Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory | Columbia University in New York | Antarctica volcanoes research


#NASA Earth Observatory | Research | Mount Erebus | Strombolian erupts


#Wilhelmsen | Smart Rope | Measuring unit embedded within Timm Master rope | Making mooring operations safer and more efficient | Improving longevity for ropes | Unit transmits key tension, time and temperature information via wireless communication to command module on bridge | New mooring lines can be ordered and delivered when needed, not based on arbitrary schedules | Bridge sees tension in each of their mooring lines via app | Reduced life span if mooring ropes are used to manoeuvre out of port | Lack of insight into rope usage leads to inefficient replenishment | Visual inspections are not sufficient to determine if ropes are deteriorating faster than expected


#VORAGO | Radiation hardened and radiation tolerant microcontrollers and microprocessors | High-volume manufacturing to harden commercially designed semiconductor component | Empowers mission success | Radiation-hardened ICs that excel in extreme environments | ARM | Texas Instruments | Brainchip | Custom hardware and firmware solutions tailored to withstand extreme environments | Ensuring that mission-critical components remain resilient | Custom solutions, armed with space-grade electronics and an ARM Cortex microcontrollers | International Space Station: dies measuring the effects of protons and cosmic rays | Satelites: devices utilized in Department of Defense Space Test Program (STP) missions | CubeSats: ARM microvontroller | Semiconductor components and solutions for extreme temperature environments up to +200°C


#Saronic | Port Alpha | Shipyard designed to build autonomous ships for hybrid fleet | Investors: General Catalyst, a16z, Caffeinated Capital, 8VC | Delivering new classes of unmanned ships | U.S. Navydeclared need for hybrid fleet which integrates significant number of unmanned systems operating alongside manned platforms


#MemryX | Edge accelerated AI System software | SDK APIs for efficient AI processing | Hardware | Compile AI model(s) making executable file | PCIe or USB interface | x86, ARM, RISC-V processors | Windows, Linux operating systems


#GeorgePoveromo | Radar for Marlin


#RokMax | Rods, reels, lures, tackle and other gear for marlin fishing


#AST Space Mobile | AST n Science | Building space based cellular broadband network to be accessible by standard smartphones | 4G/5G connectivity everywhere on the planet | Automatic roaming from land networks to a space network | Connectivity anywhere without having to invest in expensive, specialized hardware


#NVidia | Dexterous robot development | Manipulating objects with precision, adaptability, and efficiency | Fine motor control, coordination, ability to handle a wide range of tasks, often in unstructured environments | Key aspects of robot dexterity include grip, manipulation, tactile sensitivity, agility, and coordination | Robot dexterity fevelopment for manufacturing, healthcare, logistics | Dexterity enabling automation in tasks that traditionally require human-like precision


#e-con Systems | Camera solutions for NVIDIA platforms | Full HD Global Shutter Camera for Jetson AGX Orin | Jetson AGX Orin: 64GB module, 275 TOPS with power configurable 15W and 60W | Multiple 4k ultra-lowlight camera for NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin | Global shutter | Rolling shutter | Autofocus and fixed focus | High resolution and frame rate | High dynamic range | High sensitivity in both visible and NIR regions | Superior color reproduction | MIPI and GMSL2 interfaces | Camera SDK configured to support Isaac SDK | Multi-camera support | NVIDIA Isaac GEMs ROS: GPU-accelerated packages for ROS2 application | Isaac ROS GEMs help to assess camera position with regard to its starting point | Isaac ROS GEMs empower robotic applications to maneuver and navigate through complicated environments | Installing ROS 2 requires Ubuntu 20.04 | Board cameras | USB 3.0 cameras | Autonomous mobile robots, autonomous shopping


#Antarctica2030 | Uniting leaders from sport, politics, business, media, and science to champion Antarctica Southern Ocean protection | Southern Ocean Coalition (ASOC) | Pew Charitable Trusts | Oceans 5


#NavVis | Reality capture technology | Tools for creating photorealistic digital twins of physical environments | Enhancing productivity in surveying and construction | Enablinging faster and more accurate spatial data collection and analysis | Allinq Digital used NavVis VLX and automatic modeling tools to decrease Schiphol airport to scan for BIM | BOND Construction scanning and modeling facilities across Massachusetts, USA, including airports, cruise terminals, warehouses | Four people scanned terminal in five working days | Point cloud cleaned and registered in under three days | Modelers work remotely through NavVis IVION | Hiding walls and ceilings toggles off visual clutter so you can focus on equipment, layouts, and assets | Point cloud cleanup | Georeferenced model alignment: NavVis IVION recognizes coordinate systems in IFC files and positions models automatically | TopoDOT integration: convert NavVis panoramas to IPRJ files


#Cummins | Microgrids | Providing flexible autonomous power solutions | Locally-controlled power sources that can integrate multiple energy resources such as diesel, natural gas, wind or solar power | When traditional power grid goes out, microgrid can immediately switch to backup generators and batteries | Resiliency: When one energy source fails, microgrids ensure continuous power | Decarbonization: Microgrids can incorporate renewable energy sources | Greenhouses | Healthcare facilities | Remote communities and islands


#GAM | Precision mechanical manufacturer of drive solutions used in automation technology | Engineering solutions for demanding environments | Robotic gearboxes | Servo-gearboxes | Precision spiral bevel gearboxes | Rack and pinion | Servo-couplings | GPL Robotic Planetary | GCL Cycloidal | GSL Strain Wave | Linear Mount Products for Cartesian Robots | Backlash <0.1 arcmin (6 arcsec) of gearbox, no adjustment necessary | Operation temperatures -40°C to 70°C (-40°F to 160°F) | 20,000 hours operational life | Torque 3500 Nm (31,000 in-lb)


#Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) | Advanced radar system | Dynamic, three-dimensional view of Earth | NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar satellite | Detecting land and ice surfaces movement down to centimeter | Mission will help protect communities | Actionable information to disaster response | ISRO Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) rocket | 464 miles (747 kilometers) above Earth | GSLV first mission to Sun-synchronous polar orbit | Two radar instruments: L-band system and S-band system | Monitoring planet land- and ice-covered surfaces twice every 12 days, including polar Southern Hemisphere | Helping researchers assess how forests, wetlands, agricultural areas, and permafrost change over time | Seeing through clouds | Monitoring planet surface during storms, in darkness and light | 39-foot (12-meter) radar antenna reflector | Mission managed by Caltech | NASA JPL leads U.S. component of project providing mission L-band SAR | NASA provides radar reflector antenna, deployable boom, high-rate communication subsystem for science data, GPS receivers, solid-state recorder, and payload data subsystem | ISRO provides mission S-band SAR instrument and calibrates, processes data , develops science algorithms | U R Rao Satellite Centre in Bengaluru leads ISRO components and provides spacecraft bus | Launch vehicle by ISRO Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre | Launch services by ISRO Satish Dhawan Space Centre | Satellite operations by ISRO Telemetry Tracking and Command Network | National Remote Sensing Centre in Hyderabad is responsible for S-band data reception, operational products generation, and dissemination


#Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMIR) |Objective of conserving Antarctic marine life | Response to increasing commercial interest in Antarctic krill resources | Ecosystem-based management approach | Harvesting to be carried out in a sustainable manner | 27 Members | CAMLR Convention | Commission | Scientific Committee | CCAMLR Membership | Secretariat | System of Inspection | Catch Documentation Scheme (CDS) | CCAMLR Scheme of International Scientific Observation (SISO) | CCAMLR MPA Information Repository (CMIR)


#Y.CO | Full service Luxury Yacht Company | Bringing together a dynamic and ever-evolving network of crews, captains, yards, clients, and thought leaders to keep excellence in yachting moving forward | Managing over 100 large yacht operations, from traditional operations to private fleets, special purpose yachts, exploration vessels and regatta racing teams | Yacht Charter | Luxury yachts | Crafting experiences | Waterdports experiences | Bringing on board specialist instructors | Moonen partnership | Moonen Martinique deal


#AGU | Southern Ocean Heat Burp in a Cooling World | Simulating several hundred years of net-negative emissions and gradual global cooling | Abrupt discharge of heat from Southern Ocean modeled | Global mean surface temperature increase of several tenths of degrees lasting for more than a century modeled | Ocean heat burp reasoned to originate from heat previously accumulated under global warming in deep Southern Ocean | Multi-centennial scale climate simulations | Question of the durability of oceanic storage of heat and carbon more urgent as ocean warming is accelerating | As atmospheric CO2 strongly decreases and atmospheric temperature declines, carbon and heat stored in the ocean start to return to the ocean surface | The majority of interior ocean waters ultimately returns to Southern Ocean surface and is reexposed to atmosphere in Southern Ocean | In Southern Ocean density layers outcrop at ocean surface, directly connecting surface to interior ocean thereby regulating oceanic exchange with atmosphere | Combined with persistent large-scale upwelling, Southern Ocean is prominent candidate for release of heat and carbon from ocean interior under reversal of atmospheric CO2 and global cooling | 40% of oceanic uptake of carbon | 80% of oceanic uptake of heat | Earth system model | Mass and energy conserving University of Victoria model UVic | Simulations of long time scales and carbon cycle feedbacks | UVic features atmospheric energy-balance model, ocean circulation and sea-ice model, land biosphere and ocean biogeochemistry with two plankton groups | Horizontal resolution: 3.6 × 1.8 | Ocean model; 19 vertical z-layers with increasing thicknesses over depths from 50m to 500m | Ocean Heat Release Causes Warm Period | Accumulated Heat Pushing up in Southern Ocean | Large-scale upwelling of deep waters in Southern Ocean keep surface temperatures comparatively cool | Southern Ocean serves as window to atmosphere, abruptly releasing heat during event and driving global surface warming and top of atmosphere energy loss, causing heat burp | Climate and Earth system models do not simulate changes in ice sheets and consequently miss the effect of freshwater input to ocean associated with ice sheet mass loss under global warming | Melt water discharge from Antarctic ice sheet triggered by global warming will have an additional, long-lasting freshening effect | Model used lacks a full response of the wind | Model also misses cloud feedbacks | Research underlines both importance of Southern Ocean in climate system and its response to changes in climate system beyond heat and carbon uptake under contemporary rising global temperatures | It is important to continue to improve process understanding of how waters return from interior Southern Ocean and what determines their properties | Interactive ice sheets needed | Observational data collection needed | Deep Argo observing waters below 2,000 m depths needed | Ack: research-unit Biogeochemical Modeling and funding by European Research Council (ERC)


#Ocean Autonomy Cluster | Hub for expertise on ocean autonomy


#Marine AI | AI-driven autonomy platform | Port operations | Vessel control | Enabling vessels to navigate independently,avoiding obstacles | Vision system enhancing object detection, classification, and recognition | Situational awareness system | Software suite optimised for small remotely operated USVs | NOMARS program: USX-1 vessel Defiant with comprehensive situational awareness, strategic route optimisation, tactical path routing and obstacle avoidance capability | CETUS project: Extra-Large Uncrewed Underwater Vessel (XLUUV) named XV Excalibur, uncrewed submersible, three-dimensional obstacle avoidance


#Omega | Ocean exploration with Omega watch | Water resistant: minimum depth of 30 bar (300 m/1000 ft) depending on model | Helium valve: prevents He molecules, which expand during decompression, from popping crystal face and caseback of watch | Unidirectional rotating bezel: preventing divers from accidentally rotating it wrong way and miscalculating dive time | Display: luminescent hands, indexes and dot | Shock and rack resistant: exploring caves, shipwrecks and reefs | Extendable bracelet: making extra room for thickness of diving suit | Antimagnetic: resisting forces from electronic devices | Pushers that work perfectly underwater | Official Timing Partner of the U.S. Olympic Team | Since 1932 brought its renowned precision, expertise, and technical innovation to Olympic Games, separating the margins between gold, silver, and bronze, and serving each athlete during their career-defining moments


#International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) | Recognition of the rights of Antarctica | Antarctica, including the Southern Ocean south of the Antarctic Convergence, consists of a unique environment and dependent and associated ecosystems that play indispensable roles in maintaining conditions conducive to the flourishing of life on Earth, including climate stability | ACK: Antarctica Treaty system & 1991 Protocol on Environmental Protection to Antarctic Treaty & Commission for Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR) & their recognition & protection of Antarctic environment &dependent & associated ecosystems, intrinsic value of Antarctica, its wilderness & aestheticvalues & dedication of Antarctica to peace &science | ACK: existence of global initiatives which aim to to recognise Antarctica & Southern Ocean & many Antarctic biota, to exist, to be wild, and to continue their regenerative cycles and processes free of human disruption or control, in order to enable them to fulfil their roles within larger Earth community | REC: international community addressing Antarctic governance through Antarctic Treaty System & work & recommendations of IUCN Task Force on Antarctica & Southern Ocean & 2025 IUCN Strategy, Policy & Programme on Antarctica & Southern Ocean | NB: current & projected deterioration of Antarctic environment & dependent & associated ecosystems due to activities within & outside area regulated byAntarctic Treaty System (ATS), inc activities contributing to degradation of ecosystems, such as climate change, plastic pollution, Illegal, Unreported & Unregulated (IUU) fishing | RECALL: IUCN long-standing commitment to protecting Antarctic ecosystems, species and unique wilderness values | ASKS Director General, IUCN Antarctic & Southern Ocean Task Force, IUCN Commissions & IUCN Members to thoroughly evaluate concept of fundamental rights of Antarctica and corresponding duties of humans | RECOMMENDS Director General, in collaboration with WCEL, IUCN Antarctic and Southern Ocean Task Force, IUCN Commissions & IUCN Members, submit report to IUCN Members on evaluation progress by IUCN, IUCN Members & partner stakeholders to implement this Resolution | ENCOURAGES IUCN Members to advance cooperation under Antarctic Treaty System to protect intrinsic value of Antarctica & its dependent & associated ecosystems


#Frosta Baten | Sustainable fjord transport project between Trondheim and Frosta | Electric hydrofoil boat |.Energy-efficient and emission-free travel experience | Login Group: initiator and owner of the company | Norwegian Drone Industry: communication, security and surveillance | Trondheim Port: facilitates the quay in Trondheim | NTNU: automation of customer/user interfaces | Maritime Robotics: autonomy functions and communication | Boreal: project manager and operator of the connection during the project period | Supercharge: charging with own energy production in Trondheim | WTW - ticketing and route information | Frosta Brygge: partnerTrøndelag County Council: partner


#Deep Manufacturing | Rapid production of large, high-integrity metal components | Operating 20 Wire Arc Additive Manufacturing (WAAM) systems | WAAM builds components layer by layer, using an electric arc to melt wire feedstock |.Building new generation of subsea human habitats | Producing large, mission-critical metal components for energy, maritime, aerospace and defence customers | Digitally Enabled Efficient Propeller (D.E.E.P) project | Additive manufacturing (AM) processes, integrated with digital twin technology | Transforming propellers from passive hardware into smart, cyber-physical systems capable of monitoring their performance throughout their operational life | Manufactuung large and ultra large-scale component parts | Single-arm production volume is up to 2.8 metres in diameter, 3.2 metres in height | Multi-arm production volume, through revolutionary HexBot, is up to 6.2 metres in diameter, 3.2 metres in height | Producing low volumes of large-scale metal component parts, including defence, maritime, offshore and other energy sectors | DEEP Manufacturing Advanced Manufacturing Centre of Excellence in Bristol, UK | Led by Enki Marine Ltd | Stone Marine Propulsion (design and market validation) | TWI (materials testing and manufacturing processes) | DEEP Manufacturing Ltd (manufacturing processes and production scaling | Authentise (digital thread and AI-driven monitoring) | ASTM International (standardisation and certification) | Newcastle University (hydrodynamic modelling and validation)


#NVIDIA | GPU Deep Learning | GPU acting as the brain of computing | Robots and self driving cars can perceive and unferstand the world | Accelerating the entire AI workflow | AI agents designed to reason, plan, and act | Conversational AI: multilingual speech and translation AI | Vision AI: multimodal real-time insights | AI factories: manufacturing intelligence at scale | Purpose-built AI factories | AI life-cycle | Humanoid robotics research and development platform | Machine Learning | Neural networks | Natural language processing | Speech recognition | Recommender systems | Biomedical image segmentation | Object detection | Image classification | Reinforcement learning


#Candela | Designing and manufacturing the commercially available electric hydrofoil craft | Actively stabilized, computer-controlled C-FOIL system | Highly efficient direct-drive C-Pod motor family | Full carbon fiber design | Placing highly efficient permanent magnet motors in a pod beneath water eliminates the need for a mechanical transmission | Counter-rotating propellers are driven directly by motors, improving efficiency, reducing noise, and minimizing maintenance | Electric pod motor designed for high-speed foiling craft | Pod is seawater-cooled | C-Pod is fully electric and features a direct-drive system with no gears or transmission | Sealed motors require no oil or fluid changes, ensuring a truly hassle-free, low-cost operation over time | Flight controller powers electric hydrofoil boat | Submerged active hydrofoils lift hull out of water | Smart sensors and flight control software automatically adjust for a smooth, stable ride | Made from ultra-strong multiaxial carbon fiber, hydrofoils withstand impacts from floating debris | Lithium-ion batteries | Motors directly drive propellers | C-Pod MAX units in P-12 provide a combined 320 kW for takeoff | C-8 motor outputs approximately 80 kW | Counter-rotating propellers, the second propeller counteracts generating additional forward thrust instead of letting energy dissipate


#SmartGyro | Gyro stabilization technology company | Smartgyro stabilizers effectively reduce boat roll through force created by spinning of flywheel inside vacuum-enclosed sphere, which is then transferred into hull structure to counteract wave motion | Gyroscope is spinning wheel (flywheel) or disk that maintains its orientation and resists changes in its axis of rotation | Gyroscopic effect | The law of conservation of angular momentum | Precession motion | Moment of inertia | Gyro stabilizers are mounted in such a way that force that disturbs axis of orientation of flywheel is (mainly) force caused by rolling | When vessel rolls due to wave motion, on-board gyroscope responds by generating forces that oppose these movements | Antiroll effect can be increased by installing more gyros | Precession motion must always be carefully controlled, continuously adjusting and synchronizing its amplitude and its time correlation with incoming sea waves | Motion control system takes care of this important task by means of hardware computing platform, and series of sensors distributed on different parts of machine | Based on data acquired by sensors, (including boat state - roll, pitch and precession rotation angle), algorithms precisely regulate braking effect of hydraulic pistons mounted on side of sphere containing flywheel, and ultimately, synchronize precession motion with rolling wave | Control system is capable of responding to different, ever changing sea conditions rapidly, and maximum antiroll torque is always generated, whatever sea state | Smartgyro modular approach splits stabilizer into smaller, easy-to-handle components | Modular design allows for opening of sphere containing flywheel, to inspect, extract or replace internal components


#Seakeeper | Marine motion control technology | Anti-roll gyro | No outside appendages | Flywheel spins at speeds up to 557 miles per hour generating enough force to stop a boat from rolling | Vacuum encapsulation enables flywheel to spin roughly three times faster, cuts flywheel weight by two-thirds, and halves power requirements | Critical components (flywheel, bearings, and motor) are sealed in a vacuum | Cooling system removes heat from within vacuum enclosure and dissipates it through a glycol/seawater combination | Active control works as smart technology, automatically gauging sea state and reacting instantaneously | Inside vacuum encapsulation, flywheel spins at speeds of up to 9,750 rpm | When boat rolls, gyro tilts fore and aft (precesses), producing powerful gyroscopic torque to port and starboard that counteracts boat roll | Seakeeper 40: yachts 85 feet and up (up to 115 tons), field replaceable bearings (FRB) | Seakeeper 26: vessels ~70-85 feet, up to ~75 tons | Seakeeper 18: crafted for ~60-75 foot boats, up to 56 tons | Seakeeper 3: Specially designed to eliminate roll on ~35-41 foot boats