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Bedrock AUV at New Bedford

Bedrock Ocean, a US public benefit corporation, designs and builds its own autonomous electric undersea vehicles paired with the Mosaic cloud-native data platform for seabed mapping and offshore survey of wind farms and cables, filling the pure-commercial subsea-survey cell of the maritime matrix. Its AUVs operate independently underwater on inertial navigation with onboard edge compute, neither towed nor tele-piloted while submerged, clearing the AI-as-primary bar, each costing under $1 million with a pitch that two AUVs cover the same ground as one mapping ship. The registry records it at early commercial maturity: it raised a $25.5 million Series A in mid-2025 co-led by Northzone and Primary, for roughly $40 million-plus in total, and did paid commercial survey work in offshore wind, oil and gas, and environmental assessment over two recent quarters. A scale cap-flag applies, since there is no verified fleet size, miles mapped, or named customers, only generic sector references, and US Navy interest is informal and demo-stage rather than a contract, while the founding year is not precisely pinned at around 2020 to 2021.

Bedrock AUV by Bedrock Ocean · Operated by Bedrock Ocean · Catalog entry · 2 sources · not yet field-verified · Maritime

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PRIMARY SOURCE
Courtesy of Bedrock Ocean

Bedrock Ocean's demonstration of its electric autonomous underwater vehicle for seabed survey and mapping. A commercial seabed-survey platform.

Bedrock Ocean AUV deployed at offshore wind lease areas off Massachusetts. Subsea geophysical surveys for Vineyard Wind.

Key facts

Fleet
Bedrock AUV
Operator
Bedrock Ocean
Coverage
Offshore wind lease areas off Massachusetts
Use Case
Subsea geophysical surveys for Vineyard Wind

Safety record

No incidents on record for Bedrock AUV at New Bedford.

Only active incidents are counted. Retracted incidents are excluded from this summary but remain reachable at their canonical URLs.

Trust tier
Catalog entry · 2 sources · not yet field-verifiedhow tiers work →
Last updated
2026-07-10
Model
Bedrock AUV
Company
Bedrock Ocean
Location
United States/Massachusetts/New Bedford
Operator
Bedrock Ocean
Status
operational
Operator type
maker operated
ID
a0d6fb41-f1e2-44f9-bc21-4032388c3a7b

Timeline

  1. Jun 2026
    created
  2. Jul 2026
    Current status: operational, reviewed
    Latest recorded state. New status transitions append here as the deployment-status recorder produces them.

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Bedrock AUV operates in New Bedford. Explore the full verified map:

Sources (2)

  1. https://www.bedrockocean.com/
  2. https://www.robotics247.com/article/bedrock_raises_25.5m_series_a_robots_data_seafloor_exploration_offshore_wind_energy
Methodology: Verified · 2 sources (no primary) · last reviewed 2026-07-10

Verification posture

Verified

Low confidence

Review state

Stable

Last reviewed 2026-07-10

Maturity + lifecycle

Maturity stage: commercial

Lifecycle: active

Architectural position

Cohort: underwater

Sources by quality tier

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unclassified
Unclassified source
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secondary-trade-publication
Trade publication

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Common questions

What is the Bedrock AUV deployment at New Bedford?
Bedrock AUV, built by Bedrock Ocean, is recorded as a deployment at New Bedford on the DEPLOY registry. Bedrock Ocean operates the deployment directly.
Who operates Bedrock AUV at New Bedford?
Bedrock Ocean, the manufacturer of Bedrock AUV, operates this deployment directly. This is a maker-deploys-its-own-product arrangement rather than a customer pilot.
Have there been incidents at the Bedrock AUV deployment at New Bedford?
No active incidents affecting this deployment are recorded on the DEPLOY registry. Absence of recorded incidents is not a guarantee no incident occurred; DEPLOY records only sourced incidents and suppresses retracted ones.

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