Autonomous Underwater Scanning Using Artificial Intelligence
UWAI robotics develops autonomous underwater vehicles (AUV) to support the aquaculture industry.
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
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Scanning Mussel Ropes
The ŪWAI Robotics group has developed a successful autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) which automatically scans mussel farms while collecting mussel samples.
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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.
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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…