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Ghost Shark (XL-AUV) vs HUGIN in 2026
Comparing 2 humanoid robots across availability, pricing, capabilities, and verified deployments. Current as of 2026.
Key differences
Neither Ghost Shark (XL-AUV) nor HUGIN leads across the verified dimensions on DEPLOY's record as of 2026; the comparison table holds every sourced figure side by side.
| Attribute | ||
|---|---|---|
| Manufacturer | Anduril Industries | Kongsberg Maritime |
| Form factor | underwater | underwater |
| Maturity | production | production |
| Autonomy | — | — |
| Availability | internal-onlyenterprise | internal-onlyenterprise |
| Price | Not announced | Not announced |
| Capability claims | — | — |
| Brain |
| — |
| Verified deployments | 2Anduril Industries, Anduril Industries | 2Kongsberg Maritime, Kongsberg Maritime |
| Privacy practices | — | — |
| Sources on file | 9 | 9 |
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Ghost Shark (XL-AUV)
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Editorial summaries
Ghost Shark (XL-AUV)
Anduril's Ghost Shark is an extra-large autonomous undersea vehicle (XL-AUV) and the production-maturity anchor of the defense-subsea cohort, extending the new-defense AI-first model (Anduril, Shield AI, Helsing, and Saronic on the surface) into the subsea regime. It is co-developed with the Royal Australian Navy and the Defence Science and Technology Group, leverages Dive-LD technology and Anduril's Lattice AI, and is backed by an A$1.7 billion RAN production contract (September 2025).
Two cap-flags: the A$1.7B figure is the production contract, distinct from the A$140M 2022 co-development funding that aggregator reporting sometimes conflates with it; and detailed specs (around 12 meters length, plus displacement, endurance, and depth) are estimates, because the Australian Department of Defence withholds the design. It is defense procurement; there is no consumer price.
HUGIN
Kongsberg's HUGIN family (including HUGIN Superior) is the commercial-and-defense subsea workhorse of the maritime cohort: free-swimming autonomous underwater vehicles with genuine in-mission onboard processing, autonomous pipe-tracking, terrain-relative navigation, and automated target recognition. HUGIN Superior is full-ocean-depth with 70-plus hours of endurance and navigation accuracy under 0.04 percent of distance travelled, used for mine countermeasures, intelligence preparation of the environment, seabed warfare, and hydrographic survey.
Made by Kongsberg (Norway), it is recorded at the vehicle level (the HUGIN AUV, not the Kongsberg parent conglomerate). It is sold to commercial survey operators and navies on contract; there is no consumer price.
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Recent coverage
- Surveys, Offshore Energy Inspections Leverage Autonomous TechnologyHUGIN · Marine Technology News · 2026-08-10
- An Explosion Knocked Out Anduril’s Rocket Motor Test Site in MississippiGhost Shark (XL-AUV) · Wired · 2026-07-01
- New Pentagon unmanned czar will oversee most drone programsGhost Shark (XL-AUV) · Ben Smith, Deploy Editor · 2026-07-01
- Samsung and Kongsberg Project an Autonomous LNG Carrier - Puente de MandoHUGIN · Google News · 2026-06-23
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