UWAI Robotics

Autonomous Underwater Scanning Using Artificial Intelligence

Our Work

Empowering sustainable aquaculture and fisheries to scale and enabling effective management of our pristine coastline in NZ and globally with a commitment to innovation.

Smart Autonomous Underwater Vehicle

We conduct scans using our Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV), a cutting-edge technology designed for advanced underwater exploration and data collection that uses artificial intelligence.

Sample Collection

Ability to collect mussel samples using a gripper attached to the robot, saving time and money over the current labour-intensive approaches.

Data Processing Services

Provide 3D colour scanning/recognition of underwater surfaces, objects, organisms to sub-mm accuracy using novel AI approaches to automatically scan for crop health, condition, biofouling, or conditions of underwater structures.

Advanced Software

Our approach is unique in that we have developed an advanced AUV simulator which enables rapid prototyping of novel navigation, inspection patterns and AI-based image recognition.

Team of Experts

We have experts in the area of building and leveraging pipelines. With a deep understanding of both batch and real-time processing, our experts ensure seamless integration, automation, and optimization of data pipelines to support complex analytics.

Economic Monitoring

Using state-of-the-art hardware and software, our advanced process delivers results as accurate as manual monitoring—at less than half the cost. And we make it look effortless.

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Services

Mussel Farm Monitoring

This innovative technology assists mussel farmers in measuring mussels, providing vital information to determine harvest times, and predicting yields, which is crucial for planning processing staff requirements.

Mussel Sample Collection

Ability to collect mussel samples using a gripper attached to the robot, saving time and money over the current labour-intensive approaches. This is done in combination with mussel rope scanning.

Scallop Monitoring

Monitoring scallop beds for health and numbers through scanning the seabed. Data accuracy is comparable to manual methods using divers.

Scanning of Aquaculture Structures

Provide 3D colour scanning/recognition of underwater surfaces, objects, organisms to sub-mm accuracy using novel AI approaches to automatically scan for crop health, condition, biofouling, or conditions of underwater structures.

Scanning Fish Farms

Surveying salmon nets for holes or other damage on fish farms.

Other Underwater Scanning

Get in touch with us to discuss your underwater scanning needs. We’d be happy to talk through your goals and how we can help achieve them. We look forward to connecting with you.


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Marine Success

  • Scanning Mussel Ropes

    Scanning Mussel Ropes

    The ŪWAI Robotics group has developed a successful autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) which automatically scans mussel farms while collecting mussel samples.

  • Scallop Seabed Survey

    Scallop Seabed Survey

    See how the ŪWAI Robotics ROV and machine learning can be combined to transform the scallop fishing industry. This MBIE funded project and partnership with NIWA explores non-destructive and sustainable alternatives to dredging.

  • Autonomous Functionality

    Autonomous Functionality

    The ŪWAI Robotics team had a fieldtrip to Nelson in March. It was very successful with great weather over the week in Nelson and lots of data collected. The ROV scanned mussel rope lines at the mussel farms in Tasman Bay. Autonomous scanning was refined to the point where we can accept early adopters. This…