Cellula Robotics is joining the National Oceanography Centre (NOC) Marine Robotics Innovation Centre's community of partners.

A privately-owned company founded and based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Cellula Robotics Ltd. is engaged in three main commercial product development programs: AUV systems, subsea geotechnical systems and bespoke subsea robotics systems engineering and control system products. The company has clients around the world in offshore defense, oil and gas, ocean exploration, and renewables markets.

In 2019, Cellula Robotics worked with the NOC, supplying a bespoke subsea drilling rig for the STEMM-CCS project, which successfully demonstrated the potential of innovative new techniques for Carbon Capture and Storage in the marine environment.

The NOC says that the new partnership with Cellula Robotics will further enable the company to collaborate and share expertise with the Centre’s other strategic partners in the advancement of cutting-edge marine autonomous technology.

“It’s great to have Cellula Robotics join the Marine Robotics Innovation Centre. Our interactions in getting to this point have shown that they have a truly collaborative approach to what they do, making them an ideal partner to engage with the community,” says Aidan Thorn, Innovation Centre manager.

“There are a number of very obvious synergies between Cellula’s work and the NOC’s own work on marine autonomous systems, and this agreement enables us to explore how we can work together going forward.”

Cellula Robotics currently has a team of around 30 engineers, technicians and program managers based in its combined office and workshop facilities in Burnaby, which is on the outskirts of Vancouver. The company also has a regional office in Aberdeenshire UK, which currently concentrates on business development, customer support and project management.