Underwater Drones
This company sells a build it yourself ROV kit, they estimate that it will take you at least 6 hours to assemble.
Who is Blue Robotics?
Founded in 1999, is believed to be the leading volume manufacturer of ROVs over that 21 year span. Their key features include a high thrust:weight ratio, close relations with autonomous piloting software producers and significant market penetration into the United States first response and naval markets.
Who is Video Ray?
Widely believed to be the most popular work class ROV manufacturer in the world, this company markets their ROV's high resale value and wide network of trained ROV pilots to rely on as part of its value propositions.
Who is SAAB Seaeye?
Founded almost 30 years ago, this UK based crawler company has a very attractive and functional looking control console and ATEX zone 1 and 2 rating options for their systems.
Who is Mini-Cam / Proteus?
Founded over 50 years ago, this Orlando based company has truck mounted systems and is beginning to push the industry into the HD/4K stage with some new releases. They are the biggest crawler competitor in the United States, but have limited sales outside of North America.
Who is CUES Inc.?
This manufacturer merged with Spoondrift, an ocean buoy sensor, in 2019. They also landed a 1000 unit deal with National Geographic to supply ocean explorers with their own kits to do ocean research.
Who is OpenROV / Sofar Ocean?
1. Capability
2. Intuitive
3. Rugged
4. Value
Who is Teledyne SeaBotix?
Founded in 1974, this aquaculture turnkey supplier offers a variety of products, services and software, including net cleaners and ROV systems that are particularly popular in Norway. These ROV systems have a large mort vacuum attachment among other tools made for the Aquaculture sector.
Who is AKVA Group / Sperre ROVs?
Who is Easy Sight?
Founded in 1983 in Germany, this company was the first to introduce high definition video into the pipe inspection market in the United States. Their base software is called PipeCommander, but they have a close relationship with POSM software.
Who is Rausch?
This Shenzhen based manufacturer touts USA as its main source of traffic to its website with over 10000 monthly visitors spending an average of 3 minutes per visit. They have a 10 lbs, 8 thruster, swappable battery ROV.
Who is Chasing Innovations?
Founded in 2005, this PEI based marine computers manufacturer moved into the ROV space with a six thruster system and fleet management software offering.
Who is Marinenav?
Founded in 2006, this west coast based ROV manufacturer's largest ROV is a 33 kg ROV with 2 knot top speed. They have sold multiple systems to DFO and RCMP here in Canada, selling on the idea that their systems are best suited for high current scenarios.
Who is Seamor?
Founded in 2003, this former employer of Casey Kane sells mostly push cameras, but also has a crawler that beat us out in a deal with Salamanca, NY due to it having "more features" at the same price.
Who is Insight Vision?
Founded in the 1960s, this Wisconsin based company has sold a large number of truck mounted systems in the North American market. They have faded in sales in recent years, but have recently released a portable system with a large tablet/button control style device that has created some buzz in the industry.
Who is Aries?
Founded in 2014 at a university, this company uses a mobile device to view their camera feed and handle some controls. They have recently advanced to creating their own streaming application and are marketing heavily toward maritime companies looking to simultaneously view and report on hull inspections.
Who is Blueye?
Founded in 1984, this company began in audio and video solutions. They have a bit of a "cult" following in the gulf coast area in the United States, with customers remarking on their durability and high power for fighting currents. They are most popular in the regions SAR market.
Who is Outland Technologies?
In 2012, this company acquired Schilling Robotics, a leading manufacturer of work class ROVs for the oil and gas sector. The manipulators from schilling are used on virtually every large scale work class system, their ROVs are also known for their versatility with over 30 subsea interchangeable accessories. This company has over 37,000 employees in 48 countries.
Who is TechnipFMC?
In 2018, SPX corporation announced that it would acquire a Florida based crawler company along with this company. This company makes push cameras for as small as 32mm diameter all the way up to 1500mm diameter.
Who is Pear Point?
This 60+ year old German crawler company is the second largest in the world, selling both cutters and a complete crawler line. Of the major municipal crawler systems for sale, they are the most expensive. They operate under a different name in North America.
Who is RapidView IBAK?
Founded by Stanford graduates 12 years ago, this company features a dedicated ShipHull package with the following features: Mission Planning App, Autopilot Controls, Map overlay, Live Streaming, Automated Reporting, Measurement Tool Package, Annotation Package, Photo enhancing, DVL/USBL
Who is SeaDrone?
Founded in 2005, this manufacturer has a 500m depth rated system with a 1.5 kg:weight thrust ratio recently released. The company claims 261 ROVs sold in its history.
Who is Subsea Tech?
Founded in 1936, this company offers pipe crawlers, AUVs and ROVs. This company's main focuses are Defense & Security, Offshore Oil & Gas, Aerospace and Nuclear applications. They have five offices and a particularly strong foothold in Europe.
Who is ECA?
Founded in 2006 in China, this company has two crawler systems with similar specs to ours, powered reel and a joystick laptop portable console. In 2016, this company acquired Cobra Technologies, joining two portable crawler brands into one.
Who is Trio-Vision?
Founded in 1988, this German crawler company is the largest in the world and works under a different name in North America. They have zoom cameras, nozzle cameras, mobile systems and truck mounted systems. They have a hostile relationship with their main competitor.
Who is iPEK / Envirosight?