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Bedrock Ocean dredges up $25M to map the seafloor with robots
Bedrock Ocean wants to use autonomous underwater vehicles to make mapping the seafloor faster and cheaper.
Bedrock Ocean has developed an autonomous underwater vehicle(AUV) that runs for up to 12 hours off its lithium-ion batteries while mapping the floor using its sonar and magnetic sensors. Traditionally, the ocean floor has been mapped by large ships, which blast powerful sonar pulses down into the water column. “The pot at the end of the rainbow that everybody has been chasing for 20 years has been, can we replace traditional ships?” Brandon Mah, co-founder and CEO of Bedrock Ocean, told TechCrunch.
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