IQUA Robotics has shared details of its fifth consecutive REPMUS, once again proving the capabilities of the company's SPARUS II autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) in mine countermeasures and seabed mapping operations.

From September 3–24, 2026, the IQUA Robotics team was based in Sesimbra, Portugal, working alongside the Spanish Navy’s Mine Countermeasures (MCM) group. Over the exercise, the company’s SPARUS II AUV ran 16 different MCM serials, detecting many potential contacts and confirming the presence of multiple mines. For the first time, IQUA also worked with the Rapid Environmental Assessment (REA) group and took part in the exercise’s tactical phase. The vehicle was configured with a Blueprint Subsea forward-looking sonar, a Norbit multibeam echosounder, and an optical camera system developed in-house by IQUA.

At the core of IQUA’s participation was the MCM pipeline, which combines detection and identification in a single autonomous mission.…