November 4, 2025 -- At Indo Pac 2025, Austal Australia and Greenroom Robotics have announced that, following extensive trials and successful testing, future Austal Vessels have the option to include Greenroom’s GAMA and Lookout+ technology to transform them into fully autonomous vessels.
Significantly, this unique collaboration aims to achieve rapid autonomy and AI integration, creating intelligent maritime systems in as little as five days, while competitor solutions on the market take weeks or months.
This is a major milestone in their Strategic Partnership Agreement (signed in September 2024), which brings together Australia’s strategic shipbuilder and leading maritime autonomy company, to redefine the future of shipbuilding.
The ground-breaking technology is on demonstration for media to try via a simulation at IndoPac at the Austal booth at Indo Pacific 2025 in Sydney.
Austal has been working with Greenroom Robotics since 2023, with Austal providing a mentoring role as Greenroom scales up and grows globally. Both companies are headquartered in Western Australia. Greenroom has 32 employees, Austal has 4,479.
Greenroom Robotics’ GAMA and Lookout+ technologies turn any boat into an autonomous surface vessel using vision-based AI through the boat’s existing cameras and CCTV systems. These technologies will work seamlessly with Austal’s proven platform management system, MARINELINK Prime, to offer reliable and safe navigation of vessels, including collision avoidance.
During the Royal Australian Navy’s Patrol Boat Autonomy Trial (PBAT), the integrated software successfully executed 148 autonomous collision avoidance manoeuvres over a 705-nautical-mile trial. This formed a strong foundation for autonomy integration opportunities across Austal vessels.
Austal CEO, Patrick Gregg, said: “By bringing together Austal’s shipbuilding excellence and Greenroom’s advanced AI and autonomy software, we’re creating the best of both worlds for the future of Australian shipbuilding. It’s an example of how established industry and emerging innovation can work hand-in-hand to deliver real capability, quickly.
“We are delighted to be working with Greenroom Robotics to develop an integration package to offer to other companies so their clients can leverage the benefits of autonomy and AI now and into the future.”
At a glance
- Company
- Austal Australia and Greenroom Robotics
- Announcement
- Partnership
- Location
- Sydney, Australia
Key figures
- Target integration time
- as little as five days
- Autonomous collision-avoidance manoeuvres in trial
- 148
- Trial distance
- 705-nautical-mile
- Strategic Partnership Agreement signed
- September 2024
People
- Patrick GreggAustal CEO
- Harry HubbertGreenroom Robotics co-founder and COO
- Sam AbbottAustal Head of R&D
Products and programs
Greenroom Robotics co-founder and COO, Harry Hubbert said: “Our partnership with Austal is creating best in class capabilities for Australia’s shipbuilding future. Austal are very forward thinking and build great ships. Greenroom are a software company providing autonomous navigation and situational awareness software. What we do is hard, and what they do is hard. This partnership meshes the best of our skill sets to solve significant maritime problems together.
“Greenroom Robotics’ advanced maritime autonomy software and AI-powered optical radar reduces crewing requirements and enhances situational awareness. There’s no size limit for the technology. It works on any vessel.”
(Sam Abbott, Head of R&D at Austal and Harry Hubbert, co-founder and COO, Greenroom Robotics)
About Austal:
Austal is Australia’s strategic shipbuilder and defence prime contractor designing, constructing and sustaining some of the world’s most advanced commercial and defence vessels. In its 37 years of operations, Austal has built more than 350 vessels for 122 commercial and defence operators in 59 countries. Austal is Australia’s largest defence exporter and first ASX-listed shipbuilder. The Company has industry-leading shipyards in Australia, the United States of America, Philippines and Vietnam, and service centres worldwide.
Austal delivers iconic monohull, catamaran and trimaran commercial and defence vessel platforms. Although the Company’s roots are in aluminium shipbuilding – it is the world’s largest aluminium shipbuilder – Austal builds conventional and autonomous ships in both steel and aluminium, as well as a range of other bespoke maritime build programs such submarine modules. Austal was the first, and remains one of only two, foreign-owned prime contractors designing, constructing and sustaining ships for the US Navy.
About Greenroom Robotics:
Greenroom Robotics is a world-leading Australian company specialising in advanced maritime autonomy, navigation, and situational awareness solutions. Founded by three engineers who met at the Australian Maritime College in Launceston, Greenroom now operates from facilities in Sydney and Perth Australia, and Houston USA. Driven by a mission to transform maritime operations through autonomy and AI for safe, clean and protected oceans, Greenroom is shaping the future of both uncrewed and crewed maritime operations worldwide. In true Australian entrepreneurial spirit, the company has bootstrapped its way to international success without external investment.
https://greenroomrobotics.com/
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Further Information
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In brief
Austal Australia and Greenroom Robotics say future Austal vessels can be offered with Greenroom’s GAMA and Lookout+ autonomy systems, following trials and testing. The companies plan to integrate the software with Austal’s MARINELINK Prime platform management system, with the aim of completing integration in as little as five days. The announcement advances a strategic partnership signed in September 2024. During the Royal Australian Navy’s Patrol Boat Autonomy Trial, the integrated software performed 148 autonomous collision-avoidance manoeuvres across a 705-nautical-mile trial, according to the release. The companies say the systems use existing cameras and CCTV to support autonomous navigation and situational awareness. The technology was being demonstrated through a simulation at Austal’s booth during Indo Pacific 2025 in Sydney.
Key takeaways
- Austal and Greenroom say future Austal vessels may be equipped with GAMA and Lookout+ autonomy software.
- The companies aim to complete integration in as little as five days.
- The systems are designed to work with Austal’s MARINELINK Prime platform management system.
- The release reports 148 collision-avoidance manoeuvres during a 705-nautical-mile naval trial.
