Buying guide
Bedrock AUV vs HUGIN 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 | Bedrock Ocean | Kongsberg |
| Form factor | maritime | maritime |
| Maturity | commercial | production |
| Availability | internal-onlyenterprise | internal-onlyenterprise |
| Price | Not announced | Not announced |
| Capability claims | — | — |
| Brain | — | — |
| Verified deployments | 1Bedrock Ocean | 1Stavanger |
| Privacy practices | — | — |
| Sources on file | 6 | 7 |
Editorial summaries
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.
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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