Summary: Bedrock Ocean is developing a fleet of autonomous underwater machines to traverse the ocean floor, map the landscape by using various sensors, and use this data to build a bathymetric representation of the ocean with far more precision and fidelity than traditional methods that rely on ships on the surface of the ocean and satellites in low Earth orbit.

Bedrock Ocean Exploration, an ocean-mapping data company creating the world’s first detailed commercial and publicly available data library of the ocean, today announced the acquisition of core technology and software from Shone Automation Inc. This purchase will help expand on a first-of-its-kind ocean mapping data offering that supports offshore wind development and tangential ocean infrastructure markets. Shone’s nautical charts backend technology will integrate into Bedrock’s Mosaic™...