Cellula Robotics Ltd. has successfully completed the mid-life maintenance and upgrade to Fukada Salvage and Marine Works Co., Ltd. (Fukada)’s Unicorn-1 Seafloor Drill, based on Cellula’s CRD100 Seafloor Drill. The upgrades, including improvements for increased automation and a new user interface, incorporates many lessons learnt from the last six years of offshore work, resulting in greater operational efficiency, functionality and lifespan of the drill.
The drill arrived at Cellula in January 2022 with Factory Acceptance Testing completed May 2022. Unicorn-1 is scheduled to arrive in June 2022 to Fukada in Osaka, Japan to support their next project.
Cellula has continued to support Fukada and the CRD100 since delivery in 2014. Previous upgrades have included a high-definition camera package for landing and bore-hole monitoring and a Cone Penetrometer Test (CPT) system complete with outrigger legs.
Fukada Salvage and Marine Works Co., Ltd., headquartered in Osaka, Japan is involved in marine salvage, steel structure installation, offshore engineering, and other infrastructural improvement projects. FSM is currently introducing deep-sea research equipment and other cutting-edge assets to a fleet of six offshore support vessels to aggressively tackle ocean development projects. For more information, please visit the FSM website.