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Saildrone is a robotics company founded 2012, based in United States, developing 3 robots primarily in the Research category.
Autonomous maritime systems for ocean intelligence and defense
Saildrone designs, manufactures, and operates autonomous wind- and solar-powered unmanned surface vehicles that collect high-resolution oceanographic, meteorological, and security data. Its Voyager, Surveyor, and Saildrone Explorer platforms are used for ocean mapping, maritime domain awareness, and persistent monitoring in commercial, science, and defense applications.
Total funding
US$177.0M
Active products
3
Maker Score
53
Adequate evidence
View factor breakdown
Top-rated product
66.5
RoboScore
Saildrone Explorer
Company facts
- Legal name
- Saildrone Inc.
- HQ
- Alameda, United States
- Founded
- 2012 · 14 yrs
- Website
- www.saildrone.com
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Maker Score
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Trusted by
- Israeli Navyinvestigate.afsc.org ↗
Milestones
Saildrone was founded by Richard Jenkins to develop unmanned solar- and wind-powered vehicles for ocean data collection.
Press coverage
- Saildrone Business Breakdown & Founding Story
Contrary Research
- Saildrone
Schmidt Marine Technology Partners
- About Us
Saildrone
In the news
2 events · last 90 days
21.1momentumSaildrone Fires First Missiles From Its Robot Ship at US Navy's RIMPAC
In the news
2 events · last 90 days
Why Saildrone has been in the news, across 2 outlets — collected and classified independently, so a maker cannot add to it. It never changes a robot's RoboScore — the evidence half of the RoboIndex — and it can move a robot up a board by at most 15 points.
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