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Surface Drones
Autonomous surface vessels (USV) — hull design, marinized propulsion, ArduRover autopilots and long-range telemetry. Scouts for the fleet.
Under construction
Autonomous marine technology · est. 2026
Uncharted waters. Autonomous machines.
Black Anchor builds marine technology for research and deep-ocean exploration — autonomous surface drones, underwater vehicles and the AI that navigates the unknown. We go where charts don't reach. Every build is logged and published open.
Marine dronesAUVMarine AISonarField-tested
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The Fleet
Our vessels
Six machines built to explore what charts don't cover — and return with data.
−50 m
Underwater Vehicles
ROV and AUV platforms — pressure housings, thruster arrays, navigation without GPS. The machines that dive where no diver can follow.
Under construction
−100 m
Marine AI
Perception and autonomy at sea — obstacle detection, mission planning, sensor fusion that keeps working when conditions turn against you.
Under construction
−200 m
Sonar & Acoustics
Acoustic sensing, echosounders, bathymetric charting. Seeing in the dark, at depth, where cameras are useless and only sound tells the truth.
Under construction
−400 m
Marinized Electronics
Salt, pressure and vibration-proof — potted PCBs, waterproof connectors, corrosion-aware design. Electronics that survive the sea.
Under construction
−600 m
Field Expeditions
Slipway to open water — deployment, recovery, sea trials and everything that breaks on the first voyage. Field work is where the real learning happens.
Under construction
Captain's log
From the logbook
Build logs, sea trials and experiments — logged as they happen, published for anyone to sail from.
Underwater Vehicles
3 MIN READ
18 JUN 2026
Designing a 100 m Pressure Housing on a Workshop Budget
PVC, acrylic and epoxy versus 11 bar of seawater: how we designed, potted and destructively tested the electronics housing for the Lamprey micro-AUV.
#auv#mechanical
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Marine AI
3 MIN READ
30 MAY 2026
Running YOLO on a Jetson for Real-Time Buoy Detection at Sea
Training and deploying a YOLOv8n model on a Jetson Orin Nano to detect buoys, boats and swimmers from the Remora surface drone — with the glare, spray and horizon problems nobody's dataset includes.
#marine-ai#usv
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Surface Drones
3 MIN READ
22 APR 2026
ArduRover on the Water: Tuning a Differential-Thrust USV
From zig-zag shame to straight lines: parameter-by-parameter tuning of ArduPilot Rover for the Remora surface drone — steering rate, L1 navigation, speed control and what wind does to all of it.
#usv#ardupilot
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The shipyard
On the stocks
What's being forged, tested and sometimes sunk right now — and the rules we sail by.
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Build for the real sea
Everything corrodes, floods or fouls eventually. We design for the worst sea state — swell, salt, biofouling — then test until it holds.
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Autonomy over the tether
A cable or a radio link is a chain. The goal is always a machine that navigates alone — deeper and further than any tether can reach.
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Publish the log
Schematics, failures, sea-trial data. Every expedition ends as an open research note — so the next crew can sail further than we did.
// build-status Live
BA-01 · Surface drone "Remora"
Sea trialsBA-02 · Micro-AUV "Lamprey"
Pressure testingBA-03 · Sonar buoy network
PCB rev. BBA-04 · Vision autopilot stack
Dataset & training> Full expedition logs in Research_
The Crow's Nest
One dispatch per new expedition log. New vessels, failed dives, recovered data — straight from the water. No noise.
Abandon ship anytime · No tracking