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Vaarst Goes Deep to Develop Another Global Subsea First

07.12.2023
Vaarst, a leader in accelerating data intelligence, has developed the world’s first real-time data collection system capable of building live 3D reconstructions in deep waters down to 6000m/19685ft feet.

Enabling a Permanent Human Presence Under the Oceans from 2027

04.09.2023
DEEP, the ocean technology and exploration company whose purpose is to ‘Make Humans Aquatic’, announces ambition for a permanent human presence under the oceans from 2027.

Jaia Robotics Secures Over $1M Funding for Micro-Sized Autonomous Marine Vehicles

29.06.2022
Jaia Robotics, Inc., an aquatic robotics company specializing in the development of micro-sized, high-speed, autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) announced today that it has raised over $1 million in seed funding.

Legal & General and Equinor Ventures Co-lead £15.2m Series B Raise for Innovative Technology and Renewables Businesses Rovco & Vaarst

01.04.2022
As part of the expansion of its clean energy portfolio, Legal & General Capital (Legal & General) alongside the venture capital arm of the international energy company Equinor, announces that it has co-led the Series B raise into affiliated, innovative technology and renewables businesses, Rovco and its sister company Vaarst. Legal & General will invest £8.5m out of £15.2m raise. Other participants include existing shareholder Foresight Group, and In-Q-Tel, strategic investor for the US intelligence and defence communities and allied nations.

Rovco Launches New Hydrographic Division Named Rovco Survey Solutions

07.06.2021
Rovco today announced the launch of a new hydrographic services division, “Rovco Survey Solutions”, building on its experience as a leader in asset integrity and ROV projects. The Edinburgh and Bristol-based UK company is now offering a range of hydrographic, geophysical and site survey services across the offshore sector. They are pledging an investment of £9.5m in the new division, to be spent over the next 24 months. Rovco will expand its survey team, which has already flexed to more than 45 people for recent key projects, by welcoming an additional 8 new survey staff members this month.

Vaarst to drive the future of marine robotics through data focus

24.03.2021
Launching today, robotics technology player Vaarst will give offshore and marine robotics new capabilities through retrofitted artificial intelligence and autonomy.

Rovco Announces Launch of Spin-Off Company ‘Vaarst’ to Scale Up Technologies for Wider Industrial Robotics Market

25.02.2021
Rovco, leading provider of marine robotic and hydrographic services coupled with state-of-the-art technology, today announced an executive shift focus within the company. Simon Miller will take over as new Managing Director of Rovco, while newly appointed CFO and Director, Nick Boorman will lead the group alongside CEO, Brian Allen, who turns his attention to the development of a new start-up technology company, Vaarst. The news marks the continued expansion of the company during a period of sustained growth, as the number of Rovco employees reaches 57.

Rovco Delivers Record 2020 as it Plans for 2021 Growth

27.01.2021
Rovco Sees 286% Revenue Increase, Significant Employee Growth, New Technology Milestones, Key Renewable Contracts and More

Underwater Survey Robot Set For Inaugural Demonstration

13.08.2020
A state-of-the-art underwater survey robot is set to be demonstrated for the first time in August.

Rovco Purchases Seaeye Leopard Work-Class ROV, Expanding their Service Offering to Customers

21.05.2020
Rovco, one of the offshore energy industry’s leading providers of ROV and hydrographic services, coupled with artificial intelligence-based technology, have recently purchased a Saab Seaeye Leopard. This investment adds to their growing fleet of ROVs, expanding their subsea capability and capacity much further.

Rovco builds New Senior Executive Team

03.04.2020
Rovco, one of the offshore energy industry’s leading providers of ROV, hydrographic and artificial intelligence-based technology services, today announced a number of key executive team hires and internal appointments. The news marks the continued expansion of the company during a period of sustained growth, as the number of employees reaches nearly 50.

Rovco Raises £5 million Series A Investment

13.01.2020
Subsea technology firm, Rovco, today announced a £3.9 million Series A investment from Foresight group via the Foresight Williams Technology EIS Fund and Foresight VCTs. The investment was part of a larger round totalling £5 million which included funds from existing shareholders.

Rovco Launches World’s First Live 3D Subsea Streaming Technology

02.12.2019
In a world-first, subsea technology company Rovco has launched “SubSLAM Live” a 3D Streaming technology which allows clients to video and live stream 3D underwater pointclouds to any device in the world.

Rovco Completes ROV Inspection and 3D Modelling Project at Galloper Offshore Wind Farm

20.11.2019
Subsea technology specialist Rovco has successfully completed an extensive ROV inspection contract. The circa £1 million contract has resulted in completion of the baseline asset integrity survey at the newly constructed Galloper Offshore Wind Farm, a 353MW installed capacity wind farm which lies 30km off the coast of Suffolk, UK.

Rovco Nets Over £10 million in 12 Months

29.08.2019
Subsea technology company Rovco, has announced that it has generated £10.5million of sales and awards through technology provision, research grants, data collection, and surveying projects over the last 12 months.

Rovco Continues to set the Standard for Safe Systems of Work as it's Awarded a Suite of HSEQ Certifications

11.05.2019
Subsea service specialist Rovco has been awarded the full suite of health, safety and environmental management system standards by DNV – only two and a half years after they launched.

Rovco and Global Marine Group enter invested partnership

31.01.2019
Subsea technology company, Rovco has formed an invested partnership with Global Marine Group (GMG) an innovative market leader in offshore engineering, to bring intelligent inspection, repair and maintenance (IRM) solutions to the global offshore market.

Rovco live 3D visualisation project awarded second phase of funding

10.12.2018
Leading ROV and hydrographic survey company, Rovco, has been awarded further funding to develop the next stage of its integrated live 3D vision and artificial intelligence (AI) survey technology. This brings the combined total in technology grants for the UK subsea services company to £1.46 million.

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