🇺🇸 Surveyor
Saildrone · USA · unveiled 2021
commercial
task-autonomous
hybrid
data confidence: medium
Score breakdown
Autonomy & Intelligence · 25%92.0
Manipulation & Dexterity · 8%0.0
Mobility & Locomotion · 30%82.5
Hardware & Engineering · 25%82.4
Commercial Readiness & Deployment · 12%100.0
Not applicable to marine / underwater robots: Ecosystem & Viability. Excluded from the index and the remaining weights renormalised — not scored zero.
Each pillar is scored 0–100 from published specs, then weighted into the XMarI. Compare it only with other marine / underwater robots — each category uses its own reference scales. See the full methodology →
Notable
At 20 m and 15 tonnes the largest USV class in operation; 100-day endurance, wind and solar powered, mapping the seafloor to 7,000 m.
Deployments & partners
- Deep-ocean mapping
- ISR missions
Specifications
Height
—
Weight
15000.0 kg
Payload
—
Walking speed
5.1 m/s
Runtime
2400.0 h
Battery
—
Total DoF
—
Hand DoF (per hand)
—
Dexterous hands
No
Actuation
hybrid
Form factor
usv
Onboard compute
—
AI model
—
Indicative price
undisclosed
Company valuation
—
Sources · cross-checked, as of 2026-08
- https://www.saildrone.com/platform/surveyor
- https://www.navalnews.com/event-news/sea-air-space-2021/2021/08/sea-air-space-2021-saildrone-shocased-its-usvs/
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Data confidence: medium. Some figures for this robot rest on single or conflicting sources, or on manufacturer/aggregator material rather than independent reporting. Treat second-order specs as approximate. Fields marked “—” were genuinely undisclosed and left blank rather than estimated.