Buying guide
Bedrock AUV
By Bedrock Ocean · underwater
- Price
- —
- Availability
- Internal use only (not for retail).
- Maturity
- commercial
- Real-world use
- Yes, 1 verified deployment
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.
Readiness
Bedrock AUV is internal use only (not for retail), no capability claims are on file, 1 verified deployment is on file, and no incidents are on record.
- Availability
- internal-only
Internal use only (not for retail).
- Price honesty
- no-price
No price points on file for Bedrock AUV.
- Capability honesty
- no-claims
No reviewed capability claims on file for Bedrock AUV.
- Real-world use
- commercial
Maturity: commercial. 1 verified deployment in the registry.
- Safety record
- no-incidents
No incidents on record. 1 verified deployment on file.
What it claims to do
No reviewed capability claims on file.
Price
No reviewed price points on file.
Real-world use
- New Bedford operated by Bedrock Ocean2024-06-01
Safety record
No incidents on record. 1 verified deployment on file.
Privacy
No privacy practices disclosed or on file for Bedrock AUV.
Specs
- notes
- Verified: Bedrock Ocean (US PBC) designs + builds its own electric AUVs paired with a cloud data platform - a pure-commercial subsea-survey entity (offshore wind / oil & gas / environmental), the commercial-subsea-startup cell of the maritime matrix. $25.5M Series A (mid-2025, Northzone + Primary; ~$40M+ total). Did paid commercial survey work over 'the last two quarters'. Autonomy (inertial nav + onboard edge compute) clears the AI-as-primary bar. maturity=commercial (early).
- Cap-flag (scale unverified): No verified fleet size, miles-mapped, or NAMED customers (only generic sector references). US Navy interest is informal/demo-stage - do NOT log as a defense contract. Founding year not pinned (~2020-2021).
- specs
- Bedrock AUV: autonomous electric AUV for seabed mapping / offshore survey (wind farms, cables), paired with the Mosaic cloud-native data platform. Operates independently underwater on inertial navigation with onboard edge compute (not towed, not tele-piloted while submerged). Each AUV costs under $1M; pitch is 'two AUVs cover the same ground as one mapping ship'. US Public Benefit Corp.
- ip_rating
- 300 m depth
- max_speed
- 3 kt
- weight_kg
- 60
- formFactor
- maritime (autonomous SUBSEA vehicle / electric AUV; commercial seabed mapping / offshore survey)
What's under the hood
No brain on file for Bedrock AUV.
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Video
Bedrock Ocean's demonstration of its electric autonomous underwater vehicle for seabed survey and mapping. A commercial seabed-survey platform.
Manufacturer
Bedrock Ocean (registry record: /companies/bedrock-ocean)
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Sources
- Bedrock Ocean raises $25.5M Series A; electric AUV maps the seafloor (inertial nav, edge compute) · https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/10/bedrock-ocean-dredges-up-25m-to-map-the-seafloor-with-robots/
- Bedrock US AUV developer commercializing for offshore-wind data acquisition · https://www.workboat.com/technology/us-auv-developer-takes-first-step-in-commercializing-tech-for-offshore-wind-data-acquisition
- Bedrock $25.5M Series A; paid commercial survey (offshore wind/oil&gas/environmental); Mosaic cloud · https://www.robotics247.com/article/bedrock_raises_25.5m_series_a_robots_data_seafloor_exploration_offshore_wind_energy
- Bedrock Ocean Exploration official site (autonomous vehicles + data platform for seabed intelligence) · https://www.bedrockocean.com/
- Bedrock multi-AUV capability: Dec 2023 dual-AUV field deployment (0.02m bathymetric overlap; first-party deployment claim) · https://www.bedrockocean.com/insights/bedrocks-breakthrough-multi-auv-capability
- Bedrock AUV Fleet Spec · https://8883948.fs1.hubspotusercontent-na1.net/hubfs/8883948/Misc/BRX%20AUV%20Fleet%20Specification.pdf
- Bedrock Ocean official YouTube (@bedrockoceanexploration2675), embedded under standard YouTube embed terms. oEmbed author_url verified 2026-06-04. · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6oCJHHWXnU · 2026-06-04
Recent coverage
- Bedrock Ocean ExplorationBen Smith, Deploy Editor · 2025-01-01
- Bedrock Scores M in Funding to Fast Track Ocean Data InitiativesBen Smith, Deploy Editor · 2023-01-01
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