Sovereign Payloads for the ADF The ADF continues to develop plans for manned platforms, like frigates and submarines, that are going to cost billions of dollars and not produce any increments in capability until well in the future, but are they planning to spend scarce project dollars on the wrong things? Many observers believe that […]
Army Innovation Award – Robotic Z-Boat BlueZone Group (BZG) is pleased to announce the award of order to UVS Pty Ltd, for the supply of three robotic “Z-Boats” to The Royal Australian Army. This order comes as a direct result of BZG’s participation in Army Innovation Day (AID) 2016, where the lead theme was ‘manned […]
Uncrewed Surface Vehicles – Beyond Human Performance BlueZone is now pleased to be delivering to the first MARTAC MANTAS Uncrewed Surface Vehicles for customers in Australia and New Zealand. Many discussions around uncrewed systems tend to focus on ideas of using robotics to complete missions in the same way manned platforms would approach a task. […]
An Expo showing Hydrography of the Future BlueZone Group attended the highly successful Hydrospatial expo in Cairns QLD during February 2022. The event was a fantastic display of what can be expected in the future of hydrography. Andrew Hazell of BlueZone said of the expo “it was an outstanding event bringing together uniform and industry, […]
Robotics to impact every sector of the Australian economy BlueZone is pleased to participate in Robotics Australia Group and supports the release of the Robotics Roadmap for Australia 2022. Robotics Australia Group was established in 2020, bringing together a network of more than 800 people from industry, government and research institutions, and is a founding […]
The end of the year has arrived, and we have taken the opportunity to reflect on 2021 What a year! 2021 has been a year of fantastic highs and some real challenges for us all and we believe it is important to reflect on what has come to pass and what has been accomplished over […]
BlueZone recognised for 15-year membership as part of the Australian Industry and Defence Network NSW Elizabeth Karpiel, BlueZone Group CEO, and Andrew Hazell, BlueZone Group General Manager – Sales, were very happy to meet up with our friends and colleagues at the 2021 AIDN NSW Christmas Function in Darling Harbour, Sydney on 8th December. It […]
Middle East Will Be Next Test Bed for Unmanned Systems The US Navy 5th Fleet’s Task Force 59 has established a second testing outfit for the Navy’s unmanned ships following Surface Development Squadron One (SURFDEVRON) establishment in 2019. The goal of the task force is to expand the operational use of unmanned platforms in the […]
Optimised for Autonomous Applications Based around the widely popular SeaBat T20, from Teledyne RESON of Denmark, the T20-ASV is optimised for use on autonomous platforms having reduced size, power consumption and weight. The T20-ASV comes as standard with SeaBat AI control, optimising results and giving true hands-off operation – a major step toward fully autonomous […]
BlueZone Group welcomes our new Engineering Intern Bailey Phillpotts joined our Engineering team as our new Mechatronics Engineering Intern this month. BlueZone has always believed in mentoring and developing the skills of the next generation and we are thrilled to have him on board. Bailey is studying a Bachelor of Engineering, majoring in Mechatronics, Robotics […]
