SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, April 09, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Red Cat Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq: RCAT) ("Red Cat"), a drone technology company integrating robotic hardware and software for military, government, and commercial operations, announces a partnership with Ocean Power Technologies, Inc. (NYSE American: OPTT) ("OPT"), a leader in innovative and cost-effective low-carbon marine power, data, and service solutions. The partnership will enable organizations using OPT's PowerBuoy and WAM-V platforms to deploy Teal 2 Drones as part of their strategy to leverage autonomous vehicles to assess and address maritime threats in real time.
"Partnering with Ocean Power Technologies is a significant part of our strategy to address the needs and requirements of the Pentagon's Replicator Initiative with drone and swarming capabilities across multiple domains, including maritime missions," said George Matus, Red Cat's Chief Technology Officer. "We see significant opportunity for drones to extend ocean surveillance and situational awareness alongside autonomous surface vehicles to quickly move data across the air and sea while increasing the safety of reconnaissance teams and warfighters."
Red Cat's collaboration with Ocean Power Technologies and integration with OPT's maritime domain awareness solution adds to its robust tactical ecosystem of partnerships with leading companies to provide the best solutions to clients for their tactical missions. Other Red Cat hardware and software partners include Primordial Labs, Tomahawk Robotics, Athena AI, Teledyne FLIR, Reveal Technology, Immervision, and Doodle Labs, which enable capabilities such as computer vision, AI, and third-party apps.
"Our core mission is to provide advanced autonomy solutions for greater maritime situational awareness for a variety of science and technology applications, including defense and security missions," said Matt Burdyny, Chief Commercial Officer of Ocean Power Technologies. "As technology plays an increasingly important role in naval shoreline and border protection, as well as potential battlefield scenarios, partnerships like this one with Red Cat are key to increasing mission range and endurance for existing manned and unmanned assets that are part of a larger defense network."
Red Cat subsidiary Teal Drones builds its Teal 2 drone solutions, designed to support U.S. and allied military operations, public safety organizations, and government agencies, at its South Salt Lake facility. Teal 2 is a cost-effective, man-portable sUAS designed to "Dominate the Night" that has best-in-class night vision, multi-vehicle control support, and a fully modular design. It is both Blue UAS Certified and FAA Remote ID approved.
OPT's PowerBuoy can act as an Uninterruptable Power Supply (UPS) which constantly recharges itself by harvesting energy from the waves. It is ocean-deployed, moored and floats over the point of use and can operate in any ocean depth over 20 meters and up to 3,000 meters (3 km). Through its Marine Advanced Robotics subsidiary, OPT offers the WAM-V — or Wave Adaptive Modular Vessel — an innovative class of autonomous surface vehicles (ASVs) that uses an articulating suspension system to minimize structural loading.
波多黎各聖胡安，2024年4月9日（GLOBE NEWSWIRE）——爲軍事、政府和商業運營整合機器人硬件和軟件的無人機技術公司Red Cat Holdings, Inc.（納斯達克股票代碼：RCAT）（“Red Cat”）宣佈與Ocean Power Technologies, Inc.（美國紐約證券交易所代碼：OPTT）（“OPT”）建立合作伙伴關係，後者是創新和具有成本效益的低碳船用電力、數據和服務解決方案的領導者。該合作伙伴關係將使使用OPT的PowerBuoy和WAM-V平台的組織能夠部署Teal 2無人機，這是其利用自動駕駛車輛實時評估和應對海上威脅的戰略的一部分。
Red Cat首席技術官喬治·馬圖斯表示：“與海洋動力科技公司合作是我們戰略的重要組成部分，該計劃旨在通過無人機和蜂群能力跨越多個領域，包括海上任務，滿足五角大樓複製器計劃的需求和要求。”“我們認爲，無人機有重大機會擴展海洋監視和態勢感知能力，同時自動駕駛水面飛行器可以在空中和海上快速傳輸數據，同時提高偵察隊和作戰人員的安全。”
Red Cat 與 Ocean Power Technologies 的合作以及與 OPT 海域感知解決方案的整合，進一步增強了其與領先公司的強大戰術生態系統，爲客戶的戰術任務提供最佳解決方案。其他紅貓硬件和軟件合作伙伴包括Primordial Labs、Tomahawk Robotics、Athena AI、Teledyne FLIR、Reveal Technology、Immervision和Doodle Labs，它們支持計算機視覺、人工智能和第三方應用程序等功能。
Power Technologies首席商務官馬特·伯迪尼表示：“我們的核心使命是爲各種科學和技術應用（包括國防和安全任務）提供先進的自主解決方案，以提高海上態勢感知能力。”“隨着技術在海軍海岸線和邊境保護以及潛在的戰場情景中發揮着越來越重要的作用，與Red Cat這樣的合作伙伴關係是增加作爲更大防禦網絡一部分的現有載人和無人資產的任務範圍和耐力的關鍵。”
Red Cat 子公司 Teal Drones 在其南鹽湖城工廠開發其 Teal 2 無人機解決方案，旨在支持美國和盟軍的軍事行動、公共安全組織和政府機構。Teal 2 是一款經濟實惠的便攜式 SUA，專爲 “主宰夜晚” 而設計，具有一流的夜視、多車輛控制支持和完全模塊化的設計。它既通過了 Blue UAS 認證，又獲得了 FAA 遠程身份認證。
OPT的PowerBuoy可以充當不間斷電源（UPS），通過從海浪中收集能量來不斷自我充電。它在海上部署、停泊並漂浮在使用點上方，可以在任何海洋深度超過 20 米、最長 3,000 米（3 千米）處運行。OPT通過其Marine Advanced Robotics子公司提供WAM-V（或Wave Adaptive Adaptive Modulary Vessel），這是一種創新的自主水面飛行器（ASV），它使用鉸接式懸架系統來最大限度地減少結構載荷。
