Bluebottle

Ocius Technology (Sydney, New South Wales; founder and chief executive Robert Dane, evolved from his earlier Solar Sailor venture and renamed Ocius in 2014) makes the Bluebottle, a wind-, solar-, and wave-powered persistent autonomous surface vessel, recorded in the maritime form factor. The Bluebottle harvests energy three ways, through a patented hard solar sail combining wind and solar, crystalline-silicon solar panels, and rudder-mounted wave oscillators for passive propulsion, giving it average missions of about 75 days and a longest deployment of 184 days. The registry records it at commercial maturity: a A$176 million, 40-vessel, five-year Royal Australian Navy program of record announced on March 11, 2026 expands the RAN fleet from 15 to 55 vessels with deliveries from early 2026, and Ocius has operated Bluebottles around the clock from HMAS Coonawarra in Darwin for the border-security Operation Resolute since July 1, 2024 with 15 vessels already delivered. Its editorial throughline is the persistent-presence-via-energy-harvesting hardware archetype, with theoretically indefinite endurance and vessels sold outright to the RAN and US primes, distinct from Saildrone's captive data-as-a-service and Saronic's US new-defense procurement. Several cap-flags and corrections apply: the A$176 million figure's ceiling-versus-obligated split is undisclosed in all sources including the primary government release, so it is recorded as a government-reported headline value; the US Navy relationship is indirect through the prime ThayerMahan, which bought two Bluebottles for A$2.4 million and ran the US Navy anti-submarine-warfare demonstrations rather than a direct US Navy procurement; a NOAA customer relationship could not be verified and is dropped; and Ocius's funding is not verifiable with no institutional round, while its founding year and hull length conflict across sources.

Bluebottle's price is not publicly disclosed. DEPLOY has no verified price on record for Bluebottle from Ocius Technology. Physical-AI systems like this are often sold through enterprise contracts or operated as a service rather than at a public list price; check the manufacturer for the latest.

Yes. Bluebottle is independently verified in real-world operation on the DEPLOY registry, confirmed at named deployment sites with primary sources: not a concept, render, or demo-only.

Bluebottle is made by Ocius Technology, based in Sydney, Australia, founded in 1999.

1 verified deployment of Bluebottle is on the DEPLOY registry, including at Australia.

Bluebottle is in commercial deployment and is sold to operators; contact the manufacturer to buy, and see the pricing section for any recorded price.

On the DEPLOY registry, comparable maritime_surface robots to Bluebottle include Corsair, Voyager, Surveyor, Saildrone USV (Explorer / Voyager / Surveyor).

Bluebottle and Corsair (Saronic Technologies · 8 deployments) are both maritime_surface robots on the DEPLOY registry. Bluebottle has 1 verified deployment on record. Compare both records for specs, safety, deployments, and verified-vs-claimed autonomy.

On DEPLOY's intelligence score, which blends verified deployments, safety, adoption, media, and IP signals, Bluebottle ranks in roughly the top 57% of maritime_surface models tracked by the registry.

Bluebottle is at the commercial stage on the DEPLOY maturity ladder (research, prototype, pilot, commercial, production). Commercial stage means production-grade deployments are operating at named customer sites.

Bluebottle has no incidents on record in the DEPLOY registry. This does not constitute a safety guarantee; it reflects the incidents DEPLOY has tracked and verified to date.