Key points
- CTO Jason Gillum tours the Collingwood, Canada facility, showing the Eureka 1 prototype, the shallow-water system used for the company’s first autonomous nodule pickup and first demonstration of its buoyancy engines.
- A dedicated test tank room houses a hexapod system mounted above a tank, used to repeatedly pick up nodules to optimize pickup speed.
- Eureka 2, the next-generation system, is having its internal electronics upgraded, including a sphere and associated electronics, before testing in a tank that extends 7 feet above grade and 5 feet below grade.
