CategoryMaritime
Overview
UK subsea robotic Inspection services company. $67M total raised. Series B ($39M, July 2024). Offshore wind inspection focus. Status: Shutdown/ceased operations.
Reality check
Verified record
- Verified deployments
- None on file
- Active incidents
- None on file
Key facts
Focus
Funding (as recorded)
Data & sources
Web sources
3
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Models (1)
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Safety record
No incidents on record for Rovco.
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Full safety record: incidents, sourcing, and exposure data →
Recent coverage
Rovco in third-party press
Peer companies
- Cellula Robotics3 models
- HavocAI2 models
- Huntington Ingalls Industries2 models
- Kraken Technology Group2 models
- Ukrainian Armed Forces2 models
- ABB Marine & Ports1 model
Financial state
- Total funding
- $67.0M
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Funding rounds (1)
- Series B2022-03-31
$20M(reported)
Recent activity
Every change to this record is dated, sourced, and independently verified where marked.
- Record createdJul 22, 2026
Added to the verified registry
Sources (3)
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Methodology: Verified · 3 sources (no primary) · last reviewed 2026-10-21
Verification posture
Verified
Low confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-10-21
Sources by quality tier
- 3
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Methodology surface for Rovco.Peer companies
- Cellula Robotics3 models
- HavocAI2 models
- Huntington Ingalls Industries2 models
- Kraken Technology Group2 models
- Ukrainian Armed Forces2 models
- ABB Marine & Ports1 model
In the press
Recent coverage mentioning Rovco from third-party publications. Automatically surfaced; not part of the verified registry record.
Rovco and Vaarst’s recently shut-down brand acquired by Swiss group
Rovco administration to make 100+ staff redundant
Over 150 Specialist Subsea Jobs Up for Grabs at Rovco and Vaarst
Subsea robotics firm Rovco launches new offshore survey division
Rovco Expands Offshore Capabilities with Glomar Supporter Charter
Glomar hires Rovco robot for 3 years
Rovco investing in SMD’s EV Workclass ROV to boost autonomous subsea inspections
Vaarst launches to drive the future of marine robotics through data focus
Rovco in Management Shift as CEO Set to Lead New Robotics firm Vaarst
Rovco Buys a Falcon DR ROV
Subsea Robotics for Renewables
Machine-readable surfaces
- Markdown mirror: /companies/rovco.md
- RSS feed: /companies/rovco/feed.xml
- JSON-LD: embedded in this page’s head
- REST API: /v1/companies/f173a2b1-84ad-496e-a624-4b313413b720
- Revision history: /companies/rovco/history
- Data documentation: /data
- Query this programmatically: Deploy MCP
Peer companies
- Cellula Robotics3 models
- HavocAI2 models
- Huntington Ingalls Industries2 models
- Kraken Technology Group2 models
- Ukrainian Armed Forces2 models
- ABB Marine & Ports1 model
Video
Rovco’s cutting-edge Live 3D Vision technology has been developed through our own R&D and is far more capable and efficient than existing hydrographic survey me
Rovco Live 3D in real time using our SubSLAM X1 stereo camera system - Aircraft Fuselage. www.rovco.com
Rovco is disrupting subsea survey through the use of live 3D vision and machine learning technologies to perform higher quality underwater inspections by ROV or
Rovco are applying machine learning and artificial intelligence technologies to improve the efficiency of subsea surveys and asset management. Automatic detec
SubSLAM Live 3D, available now, reconstructs underwater infrastructure in real-time. The results are true scale, providing the means of taking measurements as t
A Bristol firm is poised to create 70 high-skilled jobs and access a £20million market after creating an autonomous robot for the offshore renewable energy indu
Our technical route map from Live 3D (available now) to multi-system autonomous underwater robotics collaborating to survey subsea fields. Also showing our mach
Rovco’s Ben Leslie and Helen Murray will be joined by Audrey Bowie from the Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult and Andrew Kirkland, Senior Geophysical Eng
🎥 SUBSEA EXPO 2024 MEMBER SPOTLIGHT: Rovco's SubSLAM is getting a lot of attention at Subsea Expo, defining high integrity imagery of subsea assets. "It crea
Heat Index
Category contender75/100
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
Rovco draws attention at the 61st percentile but verifies reality at the insufficient-data level among maritime robots.
6-month trend
Analysis
Funding runway warrants monitoring: last known round 56 months ago.
Signal flags
Dimension breakdown
Verified signal
Attention (reach, not merit)
DEPLOY Intelligence scores are computed from verified registry data: confirmed deployments, disclosed funding rounds, regulatory filings, active job listings, video viewership, and press coverage. Confidence ratings reflect data availability. Scores update nightly.
DEPLOY Indices — verified vs claimed
Last computed: Nov 3, 2026