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Saronic USV (Corsair / Mirage / Marauder) vs SM300 / SM200 in 2026
Comparing 2 humanoid robots across availability, pricing, capabilities, and verified deployments. Current as of 2026.
Key differences
Neither Saronic USV (Corsair / Mirage / Marauder) nor SM300 / SM200 leads across the verified dimensions on DEPLOY's record as of 2026; the comparison table holds every sourced figure side by side.
| Attribute | No image on file | |
|---|---|---|
| Manufacturer | Saronic Technologies | Sea Machines Robotics |
| Form factor | maritime_surface | maritime_surface |
| Maturity | commercial | commercial |
| Autonomy | — | — |
| Availability | internal-onlyenterprise | internal-onlyenterprise |
| Price | Not announced | Not announced |
| Capability claims | — | — |
| Brain | — | — |
| Verified deployments | 1Saronic Technologies | 1Sea Machines Robotics |
| Privacy practices | — | — |
| Sources on file | 8 | 5 |
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Saronic USV (Corsair / Mirage / Marauder)
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Editorial summaries
Saronic USV (Corsair / Mirage / Marauder)
Saronic Technologies (founded 2022 in Austin, Texas by Dino Mavrookas, an eleven-year Navy SEAL, with CTO Vibhav Altekar, an early Anduril engineer who worked on Ghost Shark) makes defense autonomous surface vessels and is the new-defense maritime archetype, extending the AI-first defense cohort of Anduril, Shield AI, and Helsing from the air into the surface-naval regime. Its production line is the 24-foot Corsair (1,000+ nm, 1,000 lb), the 52-foot Mirage (2,500+ nm, 3,500 lb), and the 180-foot Marauder medium uncrewed surface vessel, and it is building a 'Port Alpha' shipyard.
Its funding ladder ran from a $175M Series B at a $1B valuation (2024) to a $600M Series C at $4B (February 2025) to a $1.75 billion Series D at a $9.25 billion valuation on March 31, 2026, led by Kleiner Perkins. DEPLOY records it at early commercial maturity on one real production-intent Navy contract with money obligated.
A precise cap-flag on that contract: the often-cited $392 million figure is a Navy other-transaction-authority ceiling through 2031 with about $197 million obligated in July 2025, and the Navy did not name a vessel. As defense procurement, there is no consumer price.
SM300 / SM200
Sea Machines Robotics (Boston; founded by Michael Johnson) is the autonomy-system-vendor archetype of the maritime category: it makes the autonomy brain, not the boat. Its SM300 and SM200 autonomous-command systems are vessel-agnostic retrofit kits, about ten components installed in two days or less on existing or new-build workboats from 10 to 300 feet, so the customer owns and operates the hull while Sea Machines licenses the autonomy onto it.
The September 2025 SM300-NG adds class-society-approved hardware, a 200-percent compute increase, full voyage control with collision avoidance and sensor fusion, and worldwide remote command, alongside an attritable SM300-SP defense variant. A late-2024 leadership change brought David Wasson (formerly of Huntington Ingalls) in as CEO with founder Johnson moving to president and CTO, a defense-pull hire on a $10M Series C (March 2025) and about $52M total raised.
DEPLOY records it at commercial maturity on a real shipping product, class-society approval, and more than 200 systems delivered worldwide, and it credits the company with units delivered rather than sea-days, since its autonomy runs on other companies' hulls. The SM300-SP claim of more than 100 units a month is a stated production rate. As a B2B autonomy licensing business, no consumer price is published.
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Recent coverage
- Corsair Discount Code: Up to 50% Off for August 2026Saronic USV (Corsair / Mirage / Marauder) · Wired · 2026-07-09
- Sea Machines STORMRUNNER USV supports counter-UAS capability testSM300 / SM200 · Ben Smith, Deploy Editor · 2026-06-30
- Inside Saronic, the B defense startup building sea dronesSaronic USV (Corsair / Mirage / Marauder) · Ben Smith, Deploy Editor · 2026-06-15
- Sea Machines Announces Emerging Record Year of Bookings and Global Growth Fueled by USV AdoptionSM300 / SM200 · Ben Smith, Deploy Editor · 2026-04-22
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