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Schilling Robotics Sells ROV

08/03/2006

In 2007, the Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences (IFM-GEOMAR) in Kiel, Germany will receive a $6 million remotely operated vehicle (ROV) system -- built by Schilling Robotics – for marine research. The total investment will be provided by the Schleswig-Holstein-Fonds of the state of Schleswig-Holstein.
Professor Peter Herzig said that the electric ROV system can be used in water up to 6,000 m deep, allowing the vehicle to reach 90 percent of the ocean floor. The unmanned deep-sea robot, named Kiel 6000, will be equipped with two electro-hydraulic manipulators with advanced cameras and floodlights, as well as state-of-the-art navigation technology. The ROV system, which can be used in coastal areas as well as in the deep sea, will be equipped with a 6,500-meter fiber optic cable on a separate winch system.
Herzig stated that the first deep-sea tests of Kiel 6000 will take place in summer 2007 in the Pacific, aboard the research vessel Sonne. "These tests will be followed by the first expeditions in the central Atlantic led by IFM-GEOMAR scientists using the research vessel Maria S. Merian," said IFM-GEOMAR's director.