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Top 25 Autonomous research vessel companies based in the United States
RevenueBase identified 256 autonomous research vessel companies headquartered in the United States as of September 2026 and tracks 5,053 professional contacts across them, including 1,419 with verified work emails. Miami is the largest hub.
This list covers autonomous research vessel companies headquartered in the United States, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 19, 2026.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest autonomous research vessel companies based in the United States
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 772 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Saronic is building cutting-edge unmanned surface vehicles that enable maritime security and domain awareness by combining best-in-class hardware, software and artificial…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 256 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Windward is the leading Maritime AI™ company delivering full visibility across the seas through sensor-agnostic intelligence and agentic workflows that turn ocean data into…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 245 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Saildrone is a maritime defense company with a relentless passion for performance.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 211 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “MBARI is a nonprofit research institution where scientists and engineers work together to explore and study the sea.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 170 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 135 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “OceanX is a mission to explore the unseen ocean, map uncharted areas of the world, observe rare deep-sea creatures, pursue scientific and medical breakthroughs, and then bring all…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 127 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Sea-Bird Scientific exists to help scientists know the world, and shape policy that changes it for the better.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 121 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Sofar Ocean is the leading ocean intelligence platform, closing the data gap for better predictability and outcomes.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 119 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Stabbert Maritime’s group of companies delivers a wide-range of innovative solutions and support services to our offshore, science, subsea energy, and ship repair clients across…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 111 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “This company has been divested.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 107 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “TDI-Brooks is a 27-year-old research and service company specializing in geotechnical and offshore survey projects; multi-disciplinary oceanographic and environmental projects…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 94 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “HII creates advanced unmanned solutions for defense, marine research and commercial applications.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 79 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Bordelon Marine is a leading provider of offshore support and subsea services operating in the U.S.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 78 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Liquid Robotics, a wholly owned subsidiary of The Boeing Company, designs and manufactures the Wave Glider, the world’s first wave and solar powered uncrewed ocean robot.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 75 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At Greensea IQ, we are redefining the future of subsea robotics through cutting-edge solutions tailored to the Defense and Maritime industries.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 69 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The world’s only wind and solar-powered autonomous underwater and surface vehicle (AUSV) designed for long-range, persistent ocean missions.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 65 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “VideoRay is now an AV company!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 64 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Blue Robotics makes low-cost, high-performance components for marine robotics to enable the next generation of ocean exploration!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 62 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Nauticus Robotics, Inc.(Nasdaq: KITT) is a Houston-area developer of ocean robots, autonomy software and services delivered to the ocean industries.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 62 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Vatn Systems is a company pioneering next-generation attritable autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) for defense, research, and commercial maritime missions.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 53 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Seasats builds long-endurance autonomous surface vessels for defense, commercial, and scientific missions.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 52 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We are a vertically-integrated ocean exploration company developing proprietary robotics and software to quickly and cheaply explore the entirety of the Earth’s oceans on a scale…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 49 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Based in Sebastian, Florida, Triton Submarines, LLC is the world leader in the design, engineering and manufacture of manned submersibles.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 48 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Terradepth combines cutting-edge autonomous underwater vehicles with Absolute Ocean, our cloud-native enterprise data platform, to deliver comprehensive ocean intelligence…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 41 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Sea Machines Robotics is the lead provider of advanced technology for the marine and maritime sector with a product line of autonomous control and navigation systems for defense…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: autonomous research vessel companies. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names autonomous research vessel companies.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of autonomous research vessel companies, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name autonomous research vessel companies. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Autonomous research vessel companies based in the United States at a glance
As of Sep 19, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for United States, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for United States, over 256 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among autonomous research vessel companies, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in the United States whose own description of what they do matches “autonomous research vessel companies”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names autonomous research vessel companies), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among autonomous research vessel companies, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside United States are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 1,419 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 19, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names autonomous research vessel companies, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many autonomous research vessel companies are there based in the United States?
RevenueBase identified 256 autonomous research vessel companies headquartered in the United States as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Saronic Technologies, headquartered in Austin, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most autonomous research vessel companies?
Miami leads with 13 headquartered companies, followed by Seattle (13) and San Diego (10).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 1,419 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 256 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 19, 2026.
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