Blue Atlas Robotics builds robots that promote positive human interaction with our waters. We are inspired by the many people working to increase access to underwater robotics, and we see a future for this new generation of robots to impact the maritime industry as broadly as flying drones have for land based industries. However, automatic navigation close to underwater structures remains an unsolved challenge and is the major hurdle to wider adoption of underwater robotics.

Blue Atlas Robotics began as a project to build an autopilot for small ROVs that uses only a camera to navigate. Our autopilot evolved from simple visual station keeping to being able to automatically navigate inspection patterns. But we also encountered the limitations of using a robot designed for human control, and therefore we set out to build a new robot specially designed for seeing underwater. Our unique robot with its autopilot and multi-camera system gives our customers a new way of seeing their assets.