Robosys Automation

Robosys Automation announced at Seawork 2026 in Southampton on 11 June 2026 that it had integrated its VOYAGER AI REMOTE control system with up to four Sleipner thrusters, enabling automatic station-keeping, dynamic positioning and track control on both crewed and uncrewed vessels. The announcement came in the show's new Autonomous and Remote-Operated Vessel Pavilion, the first dedicated autonomy hall in Seawork's history.

Robosys positions VOYAGER AI as a catalogue-available control stack replacing custom-engineered software on individual vessel projects. The Society of Maritime Industries found in April 2026 that 63% of UK maritime-autonomy firms cite the absence of standardised propulsion and control interfaces as the primary barrier to scaling from demonstration to fleet orders; the Sleipner integration addresses that constraint directly, letting the system continuously adjust thruster output to hold position against wind and current.

The Sleipner partnership also gives Robosys a Nordic distribution channel alongside its UK base. No defence contract was disclosed at Seawork, but the commercial route to defence qualification mirrors the PATH Kongsberg took with HUGIN into allied mine-countermeasures programmes.