NEMO

NEMO is MOBY Robotics’ man-portable autonomous underwater vehicle for seafloor mapping and persistent underwater survey. It scouts a planned area, maps the seabed and identifies concentrations of polymetallic nodules before collection equipment is deployed. The platform forms the reconnaissance layer of MOBY’s integrated deep-ocean mineral-recovery system.

MOBY designs its underwater fleet for operation to 6,000 metres and uses onboard NVIDIA-based vision processing for mapping and object recognition. Data from NEMO informs the routes assigned to SCOOBEE seafloor crawlers, while SmartLift and the Mineral Production Platform handle collection and recovery. NEMO surveys and locates targets; it does not perform the physical nodule collection attributed to SCOOBEE.