Seagrass Robotics is developing a hybrid aerial-underwater platform to simplify the deployment and recovery of ocean sensors.
Startup Program
Our mission
By simplifying how sensor payloads are deployed, moved and recovered.
The problem
Reaching the ocean still means a boat, a crew and a short weather window, so most of it goes unmeasured.
The vehicle
Scroll to sweep the wings, or drag to turn it.
How it will work
Flight gets the sensor there and back. Underwater, it gets to work.
Lifts off with the sensor on board and flies to the site. No boat, no crew in transit.
Sweeps its wings back and enters the water over the site.
The sensor works below the surface for as long as the mission needs.
Surfaces, flies home or on to the next site, and is serviced for the next run.
The roadmap
Our first complete vehicle, with flight and underwater systems integrated, is being built for its first water tests.
Controlled flight, diving and recovery, repeated under defined conditions.
A partner's sensor through a defined mission, with measurable gains in access and effort.
A cheap, fast way to put machines in the water and keep them there.
Working with us
We are looking for researchers, partners and investors, starting with time-sensitive water-column measurements and temporary maritime sensing.