The verified answer
As of Oct 2026, DEPLOY verifies Pliant Energy Systems: 1 model. 1 source back the record.
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Regional ecosystem
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Key facts
Data & sources
Web sources
1
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Models (1)
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Every company Pliant Energy Systems has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Most-frequent partners
- 1NATO DIANA1× joint
- 2US Office of Naval Research1× joint
Most recent
- Pliant Energy Systems x NATO DIANA2025-12-01with NATO DIANAoperating
- with US Office of Naval Researchoperating
Pliant Energy Systems on the deployment map
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Relationships
Current leadership (1)
- Benjamin Pietro Filardo Founder & CEOreported, not verified
Founders (1)
- Benjamin Pietro Filardocofounder
Safety record
No incidents on record for Pliant Energy Systems.
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Recent coverage
Pliant Energy Systems in third-party press
Peer companies
- Google21 models
- Roborock20 models
- ST Telemedia Global Data Centres11 models
- Unitree Robotics10 models
- Teraco Data Environments8 models
- AirTrunk7 models
Financial state
- Reporting basis
- aggregator_estimate
- Lifecycle stage
- early
- Counterparty risk class
- elevated
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Partnerships
2 total · 2 operating
Every company Pliant Energy Systems has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Most recent
- Pliant Energy Systems x NATO DIANA2025-12-01with NATO DIANAoperating
- with US Office of Naval Researchoperating
Most-frequent partners
- 1NATO DIANA1× joint
- 2US Office of Naval Research1× joint
All 2 partnerships
open in the atlas →- Pliant Energy Systems x NATO DIANAwithNATO DIANAdevelopment2025-12-01operating
- Pliant Energy Systems x Office of Naval ResearchwithUS Office of Naval Researchdevelopment2021-08-01operating
Timeline
Every recorded move in Pliant Energy Systems’s history, most recent first: funding rounds, partnerships, acquisitions, supply-chain starts, key hires, and press.
PartnershipPliant Energy Systems x NATO DIANA
2025-12-01Pliant Energy Systems was selected to join the NATO DIANA 2026 Challenge Program Cohort engaging with end users to build a pathway towards adoption by NATO and Allies for its amphibious marine robotics platform.
PartnershipPliant Energy Systems x Office of Naval Research
2021-08-01Pliant Energy Systems has been awarded multiple contracts from the US Office of Naval Research including a 4.4M award in 2021 an 8M contract in 2024 and a 3.1M contract in 2025 to develop autonomous marine robotic platforms for naval applications.
Recent activity
Every change to this record is dated, sourced, and independently verified where marked.
- Record createdJun 27, 2026
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Sources (1)
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Methodology: Verified · 1 source (no primary) · last reviewed 2026-08-21
Verification posture
Verified
Low confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-08-21
Sources by quality tier
- 1
- unclassified
- Unclassified source
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Methodology surface for Pliant Energy Systems.Peer companies
- Google21 models
- Roborock20 models
- ST Telemedia Global Data Centres11 models
- Unitree Robotics10 models
- Teraco Data Environments8 models
- AirTrunk7 models
In the press
Recent coverage mentioning Pliant Energy Systems from third-party publications. Automatically surfaced; not part of the verified registry record.
Velox, the Amphibious Robot - Kottke.org
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This Land And Water Robot Charges Itself As It Moves - Intelligent Living
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This amazing robot could be the future of amphibious drones - We Are The Mighty
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Underwater robots may be the future of deep sea mining - Freethink
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Pliant Energy Systems’ C-Ray Could Mine the Seafloor Without Being Invasive - Hackster.io
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Autonomous Robots Could Mine the Deep Seafloor - IEEE Spectrum
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How a Brooklyn renewable energy company ended up making a surveillance drone — Future Blink - Mashable
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Amphibious Velox robot uses undulating fins to swim and crawl - Dezeen
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This unusual nature-inspired robot is equally at home on land or in the water - Digital Trends
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Creepy Velox robot uses undulating fins to skate over solid ice - New Atlas
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Peer companies
- Google21 models
- Roborock20 models
- ST Telemedia Global Data Centres11 models
- Unitree Robotics10 models
- Teraco Data Environments8 models
- AirTrunk7 models
Video
Pliant Energy Systems has spent the last two years developing a drone named Velox. The robot, which was initially meant to be a generator that could harness the
Pliant Energy's agile swimming amphibious robot demonstrated at the 2017 Naval Future Force Science and Technolgy Expo in Washington D.C. Benjamin Pietro Filar
Pliant Energy's latest and quietest robot, C-Ray, is in the process of being made fully autonomous for land, sea, and ice travel.
Pliant Energy's agile amphibious swimmer was revealed to the world at the 2017 Naval Future Force S&T Expo.
Pliant Energy Systems demonstrates agile amphibious swimmer
Swarm robotics for deep sea mining, presented by B. Pietro FIlardo of Pliant Energy Systems/NACROM at the 2020 Underwater Minerals Conference.
Pliant Energy's latest and quietest robot, C-Ray, is in the process of being made fully autonomous for land, sea, and ice travel.
Pietro Filardo, CEO and Founder of Pliant Energy Systems demonstrates the firm's unique marine robot, with an undulating propulsion system that allows the vehic
Heat Index
Serious54/100
A composite of competitive footprint, funding, press velocity, active partnerships, and supply-chain edges. Different from the Intelligence score below (which is per-form-factor productization). Non-robotics companies cap at 25.
Reality vs attention
Pliant Energy Systems draws attention at the 75th percentile but verifies reality at the insufficient-data level among other robots.
6-month trend
Analysis
Limited public funding data for capital position assessment.
Dimension breakdown
Verified signal
Attention (reach, not merit)
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DEPLOY Indices — verified vs claimed
Last computed: Oct 4, 2026