# Honeybee Robotics: company

Canonical ID: `d16ba279-d04f-458b-bb19-40ef08a4abcd`

## Key facts

- **Focus:** Robotic drilling, sampling, mechanisms and actuation for space exploration and extreme environments
- **Backers:** A Blue Origin company
- **Country:** United States
- **Founders:** Steve Gorevan, Chris Chapman
- **Parent company:** Blue Origin (acquired January 2022)
- **Products:** TRIDENT Lunar Drill, sampling systems, spacecraft mechanisms

- **Slug:** honeybee-robotics
- **Status:** active
- **Founded:** 1983
- **HQ:** Longmont, CO, USA

## Models

- [TRIDENT Lunar Drill](/models/honeybee-robotics-trident.md) (space) (id: `c7267858-1d6e-4200-a840-f5a4f208ddb0`)

## Current leadership (2)

- [Chris Chapman](/people/chris-chapman.md) Co-founder (_reported, not verified_)
- [Steve Gorevan](/people/steve-gorevan.md) Co-founder (_reported, not verified_)

## Founders (2)

- [Steve Gorevan](/people/steve-gorevan.md) (cofounder) _no longer at company_
- [Chris Chapman](/people/chris-chapman.md) (cofounder) _no longer at company_

## Supplies to

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## Sources (1)

1. https://www.blueorigin.com/news/honeybee-robotics-to-join-blue-origin

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