Underwater Technologies

develop & apply

MARUM has set itself the goal of gaining fundamental scientific knowledge about the ocean and the seabed in the interests of society and a healthy marine environment. We are driven by this commitment and the increasingly complex questions that need to be answered. To help answer these questions, we are constantly working to improve our operational systems. In order to be prepared for the developments and questions of tomorrow, we are already researching new and sustainable technologies and methods today to better observe, sample and monitor our oceans now and in the future.

Specific questions that arise are:

How can we develop sustainable observation technologies from the sea surface to the deep sea?
How can we enable persistent, robust and autonomous monitoring of dynamic processes?
Which new technologies in the areas of sensor technology, sampling and data processing need to be adapted or newly developed?

To answer these questions, we develop and test new robotic systems from scratch or adapt existing systems for a specific use.

Working groups involved

Visualization of a hydrodynamic analysis of a new autonomous underwater vehicle. (Copyright P.Riesen/MARUM) — Visualization of a hydrodynamic analysis of a new autonomous underwater vehicle. ( P. Riesen/MARUM)

Selection of current research projects

SPIRULA

SPiraling Intelligent Robotic Underwater monitoring pLAtform

Slider camera system

Camera module for seabed observation with underwater glider

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The new diving robot MARUM-QUEST 5000 shortly before its first dive in the North Atlantic. Photo: MARUM – Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen; M. Schröder

May 8, 2025

Maiden dive of the new MARUM-QUEST 5000

The new remotely operated diving robot MARUM-QUEST5000 has dived for the first time. The dive took place as part of the ship expedition M210 from on board ...

Group photo of some MARUM participants at the EGU. Photo: MARUM - Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen

Apr 30, 2025

MARUM research at the EGU 2025

Paleoclimate research, movements in the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, experimental borehole observatories and energy transport in ocean eddies – researchers from ...

After building underwater gliders, the physical principles of buoyancy were tested in the pool. Photo: MARUM - Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen, M.Pätzold

Apr 4, 2025

“Zukunftstag" in the MARUM-UNISchool lab

On the “Zukunftstag 2025”, twelve interested boys and girls researched and tinkered with climate reconstruction and underwater vehicles in the MARUM-UNI ...

A sulphuric acid hydrothermal vents in 270 meters water depth at the Kermadec Arc in the Pacific, taken with the diving robot MARUM-QUEST during expedition SO253. Photo: MARUM – Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen

Mar 26, 2025

On the trail of metals in volcanic hydrothermal vents

A team from Germany, New Zealand and Canada set off today on an expedition north of New Zealand on board the German research vessel FS SONNE. Until 1 May, ...