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Marine robotics

92 tracked companies; 2 companies with incident history, 2 unique documented incidents. Ranked by RobotRisk index; tick marks the industry median across companies with documented incidents, where nonzero. All industries.

22.6/100Median index across the 2 Marine robotics companies with incident history (92 tracked, 90 with none)
2Companies with incident history
2Unique documented incidents
S4Highest severity on file

Analyst brief

The marine-robotics category shows 2 incidents across 2 of 86 tracked companies, the thinnest record among categories with any entries. One malfunction and one mission-loss event are logged, at severity 3 and 4 respectively, with no repeat entries for either named company. The record reflects isolated single events rather than a pattern, and covers a small fraction of the tracked company population.

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Company risk ranking

Index 0-100: each documented incident is weighted by severity and by how well-sourced it is, discounted as it ages (half its weight every 3 years), then summed per company and scaled on a log curve so the highest-risk company worldwide is 100. Rank in industry: position among companies in the same industry that have at least one documented incident. Band groups the index: Critical (75+), High (45-74), Elevated (15-44), Low (under 15 with at least one incident); None documented means no public incident was found, which is not proof of safety.

CompanyRobotRisk index (0-100)Rank in industryBandIncidents
Saildrone
28.8
1 of 2 Elevated 1
Maritime Applied Physics Corporation
16.4
2 of 2 Elevated 1

Recent incidents

SevDateCompanyTypeLocationIncidentSource
S323 Jun 2025Maritime Applied Physics Corporation malfunction Navy experiment cut short after unmanned vessel flipped a support boat DefenseScoop
S402 Sep 2022Saildrone mission-loss Red SeaIran temporarily seizes two Saildrone Explorer USVs in Red Sea · 2 USVs USNI News
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