The Autonomy Cluster in Trondheim is one of Innovation Norway’s new cluster projects. NTNU Amos has been one of the key driving forces behind the cluster, and the Director of Amos, Professor Asgeir Sørensen, thinks the cluster could open a whole new chapter in ocean-based autonomy research.

NTNU Rector, Anne Borg, and head of REV Ocean, Nina Jensen, have signed a partnership agreement to start a cooperation on marine robotics and use of the new REV Ocean research ship. This opens up great opportunities for NTNU in terms of access to a world-leading ocean exploration vessel, and will provide REV Ocean with access to world-leading research groups at NTNU.

From 2019, the Department of Marine Technology at NTNU offers students that have a special interests for research a new program that prepares and kick-starts the participant for future PhD studies. 

First out is Martin Kvisvik Larsen, a fifth year master student who specializes in marine cybernetics.

The fourth edition of Professor Jan Erik Vinnem’s book, Offshore Risk Assessment, has just been published, 20 years after the first edition arrived in 1999.

The Norwegian Research Council are investing in new research infrastructure projects all over Norway, and two AMOS related projects will now receive funding.  

A new robot arm for underwater vehicles has been developed at the Department for Marine Technology. The arm, named SEARM, is primarily designed for smaller underwater drones and provides a cheap and easily available alternative to existing technology.

Prime Minister Erna Solberg has confirmed that the Norwegian government has allocated 55 million NOK in the 2020 government budget to the Ocean Space Centre project.   

Professor Asgeir Sørensen has received the Norwegian Research Council’s innovation prize for 2019. The price is granted to a person or organization that through exceptional use of research result have laid the foundation for research based innovation.

NTNU and SINTEF have formulated four pieces of advice to Norwegian politicians in order to ensure sustainable oceans industries.

This summer, master student Tor Magnus Aarskog from the department of Marine Technology has joined the research team on board of research vessel S. A. Agulhas II on its way to Antarctica.

From 2019, the Department of Marine Technology at NTNU will offer its students a new researcher’s program that prepares the participant for PhD studies.

A new study by scientists from NTNU and Switzerland show how floating solar farms can help transform CO2 in the oceans into fuel. 

Sunghun Hong, Mads Francis Vale Kjeldsberg and Magnus Onsrud won the awards for best posters at the 2019 poster exhibition at the Department of Marine Technology. 

NTNU launches our deepest laboratory yet, almost 370 meters below the surface of the Trondheim fjord.

77 percent of the students at the Department of Marine Technology have had an exchange year. Far more than the 40 percent that NTNU has set as a goal.

Professor Bjørnar Pettersen has been named lecturer of the year by the students at the Department of Marine Technology.

The future of the oceans was the topic when NTNU gathered activists, politicians, scientists, artists and even royalty at Ocean Week 2019.

Eighty five percent of all students in the class of 2018 at the Department for Marine Technology was offered a relevant job before their final graduation. The highest number since 2014. 

Join Us for Ocean Week 2019 on May 6-9. 

The IMT spin-off Wavefoil will soon be testing their technology at a ferry operating from the Faroe Islands.

Some of our talented students have spent their summer developing a digital twin for R/V Gunnerus. The digital twin opens up new possibilities for reasearch driven teaching and education for professors and students at NTNU.

NTNU is working on developing new solutions for the coastal infrastructure of Norway. Among them, submerged floating tunnels. 

Professor at IMT and director at NTNU Oceans, Ingrid Schjølberg, and head of the Department of Geoscience and Petroleum, Egil Tjåland, writes in Adressaavisa that Trondheim has the potential to become the mineral capital of Norway.

This plate will soon be recharging robots at the bottom of the Trondheim Fjord.

2018 marked the fourth year for the Moan-Faltinsen Best Paper Award. 

Zhaolong Yu, from NTNU, won the Moan-Faltinsen Best Paper Award on Marine Structural Mechanics/Dynamics 2018, and Guoqiang Tang, from Dalian University of Technology, won the Moan-Faltinsen Best Paper Award on Marine Hydrodynamics 2018. 

Snake robots will soon be assisting and, to some extent, replace divers and small submarines in the North Sea, but first, they will train and be tested at NTNU's test site in the Trondheim Fjord.