Buying guide
Ghost Shark (XL-AUV) vs Bedrock AUV in 2026
Comparing 2 humanoid robots across availability, pricing, capabilities, and verified deployments. Current as of 2026.
| Attribute | No image on file | No image on file |
|---|---|---|
| Manufacturer | Anduril Industries | Bedrock Ocean |
| Form factor | maritime | maritime |
| Maturity | production | commercial |
| Availability | internal-onlyenterprise | internal-onlyenterprise |
| Price | Not announced | Not announced |
| Capability claims | — | — |
| Brain |
| — |
| Verified deployments | 1Royal Australian Navy | 1Bedrock Ocean |
| Privacy practices | — | — |
| Sources on file | 7 | 6 |
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.
Bedrock AUV
Bedrock's AUV is the commercial-subsea-survey entry of the maritime cohort: an autonomous electric undersea vehicle for seabed mapping and offshore survey (wind farms, cables), paired with the Mosaic cloud-native data platform. It operates independently underwater on inertial navigation with onboard edge compute, neither towed nor tele-piloted while submerged. Bedrock is a US Public Benefit Corporation, and its pitch is unit economics: each AUV costs under $1 million, and the company frames two AUVs as covering the same ground as one mapping ship. It is sold to offshore-survey operators, not consumers; there is no consumer price, and the sub-$1M figure is a B2B unit cost, not a consumer price.
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