Subsea ROV autonomy software platform by Nauticus Robotics providing station-keeping, waypoint navigation, and pilot workload reduction for remotely operated underwater vehicles.
Primary use case: Autonomy software for subsea ROV navigation and station-keeping
Locomotion
underwater
Autonomy Level
unknown
Availability
available
Primary Use Case
Autonomy software for subsea ROV navigation and station-keeping
Persona AI, founded by former NASA Valkyrie leader Nic Radford and former Figure CTO Jerry Pratt, is focusing its humanoid robots on shipyard welding as a near-term economically viable application. The company has partnerships with HD Hyundai and POSCO in Korea, targeting skilled labor shortages in shipbuilding where hundreds of kilometers of linear welds are needed per ship.
SSE Steel Fabrication, a family-owned steel fabrication company in Lower St. Bernard, Louisiana, is partnering with Houston-based startup Persona AI to pilot a purpose-built humanoid robot for industrial welding—the first such robot to be tested in a live operating fabrication facility. Persona AI, founded by former NASA roboticist Nicolaus Radford and backed by $42 million in pre-seed funding, plans to deploy the robot for fillet welding tasks under a robotics-as-a-service model that eliminates upfront capital costs for SSE.