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Print Edition StoriesNortek AS, a Swedish firm that makes underwater acoustic instruments, this week moved its U.S. headquarters from Maryland to Boston, according to a release from the company. The news comes a little more than a week after NortekUSA announced it had developed technology for Bedford’s iRobot Corp.
NortekUSA has left Annapolis and taken up space at 27 Drydock Ave., in Boston’s Seaport District. The company says it has seven offices across the globe, including a facility already in New England, in Providence, R.I.
Under the iRobot deal, NortekUSA developed a device known as a modified compact Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (CP) for the iRobot Seaglider unmanned underwater vehicle. The idea is to allow the Seaglider sub to measure currents throughout the water column during long-range missions. NortekUSA worked on the CP device over the course of a year, officials said.
The Seaglider technology came to iRobot in 2008, when it entered into a license agreement with the University of Washington to commercialize underwater vehicle technology. The Office of Naval Research funded the initial research and development behind Seaglider technology in 1995.
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