Buying guide
REMUS (100 / 300 / 620) vs HUGIN in 2026
Comparing 2 humanoid robots across availability, pricing, capabilities, and verified deployments. Current as of 2026.
| Attribute | No image on file | |
|---|---|---|
| Manufacturer | Huntington Ingalls 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 | 1United States | 1Stavanger |
| Privacy practices | — | — |
| Sources on file | 7 | 8 |
Editorial summaries
REMUS (100 / 300 / 620)
HII's REMUS family (REMUS 100/300/600/620) is the legacy-prime of the defense-subsea cohort: autonomous undersea vehicles for mine countermeasures, hydrographic survey, ISR, and electronic warfare, built by HII's Mission Technologies division, with a lineage dating to 2001 (Hydroid and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution heritage; HII acquired Hydroid in 2020 for about $350 million). The REMUS 620 (introduced 2022) is a newer medium-class long-endurance UUV with up to 110 hours of endurance and 275 nautical miles of range, and a torpedo-tube-launched 'Yellow Moray' variant was fielded from the submarine USS Delaware in 2025. Cap-flag: large procurement-ceiling figures (such as a 200-vehicle order) are orders, not delivered counts. 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.
Common questions
- What is the difference between REMUS (100 / 300 / 620) and HUGIN?
- REMUS (100 / 300 / 620) and HUGIN are both underwater robots on the DEPLOY registry. They differ in maker, maturity, price, verified deployments, and how much of their autonomy is independently verified. See the table above for the full head-to-head; each figure is sourced.
- Which has more verified deployments, REMUS (100 / 300 / 620) or HUGIN?
- REMUS (100 / 300 / 620) and HUGIN each have 1 verified deployment on the DEPLOY registry (confirmed at named sites with primary sources).
Recent coverage
- Samsung and Kongsberg Project an Autonomous LNG Carrier - Puente de MandoHUGIN · Google News · 2026-06-23
- Quiet precision at sea, Kongsberg’s HUGIN Endurance pushes autonomous limits - AD HOC NEWSHUGIN · Google News · 2026-06-18
- HII Delivers First of the Newest REMUS Variant: 130REMUS (100 / 300 / 620) · AgentRecon · 2026-06-16
- HII Announces Major Milestone for ROMULUS USV TechnologyREMUS (100 / 300 / 620) · AgentRecon · 2026-06-15
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