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Top 25 Autonomous vessel operators worldwide
RevenueBase identified 172 autonomous vessel operators worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 3,089 professional contacts across them, including 1,140 with verified work emails. The United States is the largest market and London the largest hub.
This list covers autonomous vessel operators worldwide, 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. Country and city lists for autonomous vessel operators follow the table.
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 vessel operators worldwide
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 714 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Ocean Infinity is a technology-driven company transforming how ocean operations are carried out.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 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. | |||||
| 3 | 94 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Bringing the best of AI to the shipping industry, to make vessels and voyages more efficient.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 81 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “SeeByte provides clients in the global maritime industry with the most advanced software solutions to enhance the capabilities of their uncrewed systems.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 79 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We are a global leader and pioneer in advanced maritime drones (USVs) and maritime autonomy.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 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. | |||||
| 7 | 66 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Builds and operates BLUEBOTTLE USVs - the superior persistent Uncrewed Surface Vessel in terms of power, payload, performance and logistics.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 60 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Avikus, a start-up company that specializes in developing autonomous navigation solutions, was founded in January ’21 by Hyundai Heavy Industries Group which is the world’s best…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 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. | |||||
| 10 | 43 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Rekise Marine is a marine robotics company building intelligent autonomous systems for the world's oceans.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 42 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “TideWise is a Brazilian company that develops, integrates, and operates intelligent robotic systems to solve demands of the naval industry, whether in a river, port or maritime…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 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. | |||||
| 13 | 38 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Zeabuz provides intelligent navigation solutions to the maritime industry, with flexible and modular software solutions built to integrate with any vessel.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 36 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Wilhelmsen and Kongsberg have joined forces to take the next step in autonomous shipping.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 35 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We’re building autonomous ships for the U.S.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 35 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “ACUA Ocean designs and develops uncrewed surface vessels (USV) for ocean monitoring and data collection, providing a stable open ocean platform to deploy autonomous and remotely…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 34 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Seafar NV develops solutions and offers services to operate unmanned and crew-reduced vessels for ship owners and shipping companies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 33 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Greenroom Robotics is a leading Australian-owned and veteran-operated company transforming the maritime industry through hardware-agnostic software solutions in autonomy, spatial…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 29 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Solar powered autonomous boats providing real time information to understand and protect our oceans.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 28 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “dotOcean, founded in 2008 and located in Bruges with hubs in Gent & Leuven, Belgium is a leader and expert in pioneering autonomous robotics control and advanced situational…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 26 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “We develop autonomous hull grooming and inspection technology for commercial vessels.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 24 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Ulysses is a technology company on a mission to steward the ocean for an abundant future.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 24 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Marine Thinking is an autonomous technology company transforming the way we understand and interact with the ocean.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 23 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “MAHI is on a mission to simplify maritime autonomy!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 19 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Chance Maritime Technologies designs, builds, and operates unmanned surface vehicles (USV) and autonomous vessels (ASV).” 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 vessel operators. 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 vessel operators.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of autonomous vessel operators, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name autonomous vessel operators. 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 vessel operators worldwide at a glance
As of Sep 19, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency is reported on each country list linked below.
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 vessel operators, 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.
- Coverage
- Every country. Country and city lists for autonomous vessel operators are linked below.
- What qualifies
- Companies worldwide whose own description of what they do matches “autonomous vessel operators”. 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 vessel operators), 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 vessel operators, and records with no verified work email.
- 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, 1,140 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.
Autonomous vessel operators by location
1 lists · largest firstEvery Autonomous vessel operators list RevenueBase publishes, by country and city. Counts are matching companies in each list as of its own refresh date.
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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 vessel operators, 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 vessel operators are there worldwide?
RevenueBase identified 172 autonomous vessel operators worldwide 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?
Ocean Infinity, headquartered in London, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which country has the most autonomous vessel operators?
The United States leads with 38 companies. Every autonomous vessel operators list by country and city is linked on this page.
Which city has the most autonomous vessel operators?
London leads with 4 headquartered companies, followed by Trondheim (4) and Miami (3).
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 1,140 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 172 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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RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.