Hallin Marine is the title sponsor for BumbleBee. Their sponsorship will essentially allow the team to focus on engineering and rapid development of the robot.

Hallin Marine, a Superior Energy Services company, is a worldwide provider of integrated subsea solutions to clients in the oil, gas and renewable energy sectors. Founded in 1998, Hallin offers a broad range of subsea/offshore services and equipment including the latest saturation diving systems, remotely operated vehicles and support vessels, as well as ultra-modern engineering and manufacturing capabilities. Work undertaken typically comprises the design, installation, construction, maintenance, repair or survey of equipment required to transport oil and gas from the sea bed. Hallin currently operates a fleet of 8 subsea operations vessels and up to 28 ROVs ranging from deepwater construction class to shallow water inspection units.

Hallin Marine has been supporting the team since August 2012. They provided a cash sponsorship from the start for the procurement of AUV electronics and other parts. In preparation for ROBOSUB, Hallin Marine further strengthened the team with superior engineering expertise in design and manufacturing and sponsorship link-ups with other industry partners. They will also be sponsoring the team’s trip to AUVSI RoboSub 2013. We sincerely thank you for making the finances and cash flow smooth for us, and our dreams a reality.

Seatronics, global leaders in the rental and sale of marine electronic equipment, specialises in a range of applications: geophysical survey; navigation and positioning; oceanographic systems; video inspection; ROV survey; ROV tooling and diving & non destructive testing.

In addition to equipment rental, sales, and 24hr global technical support, Seatronics supplies subsea connectors, manufactures subsea moulded cables and has state of the art calibration facilities throughout our global offices.

Seatronics will be sponsoring the RD Instruments Workhorse DVL 1200Hz aboard BBAUV. They are also the sole provider of all underwater connectors used on the Bumblebee. This totals up to almost 20 sets of Micro Series, Low Profile and Ethernet underwater connectors.

National Instruments will be supporting the team in providing hardware and software required for the building of BumbleBee. NI is transforming the way engineers and scientists design, prototype and deploy systems for measurement, automation and embedded applications. NI empowers customers with off-the-shelf software such as NI LabVIEW and modular cost-effective hardware, and sells to a broad base of more than 30,000 different companies worldwide.

Festo is a leading world-wide supplier of automation technology and the performance leader in industrial training and education programs. We will be using their pneumatic systems for all our 4 manipulators: grabber, dropper, rotary, torpedoes launchers. The sponsored parts include linear cylinders, rotary actuator, solenoid valves, connectors and thru-panel aluminium bulkheads. This greatly reduce the number of through-hull connections.

Aaeon Technology Singapore provided a sponsorship of motherboards, cooling systems, CPU, RAMs and SSD. We will be using these for Bumblebee to process vision data as well as completing other tasks! Aaeon manufactures and markets a wide range of OEM/ODM Industrial Motherboard, Embedded System, BOX PC, PC/104, ETX, Computer on Module, Panel PC and Industrial LCD Display etc. globally.

Evernote’s goal is to help the world remember everything, communicate effectively and get things done. Evernote’s collection of apps make it easy to stay organized and productive. Our team is using their premium subscription to keep our information organized simply and synced across multiple devices.