Gain seabed dominance,
at scale.
The threat below the waterline is growing — sea mines, tampered pipelines and cut cables, contraband under a hull, wrecks and personnel to recover. BeeX HAUVs put an autonomous, hovering, untethered vehicle on the seabed for each of these missions — pushing the robot to the danger first, keeping divers and warships out of the blast radius, and returning a classified picture in minutes.
One vehicle class. The full underwater mission set.
Where legacy systems force a navy to pick a tethered ROV or a survey AUV for each task, the HAUV covers the span — because it can transit, hover, hold station, inspect, decide and (with a manipulator) intervene. That makes it a single trainable, sustainable capability across mine warfare, infrastructure protection, hydrography and constabulary work — deployed from a warship, an unmanned surface vessel or a rigid-hull inflatable.
Six roles, one HAUV fleet
Each maps to a real seabed threat — and each keeps people further from it.
Mine Counter-Measures
Detect, classify, identify and intervene against sea mines and mine-like objects in contested water — covertly, with the robot ahead of the fleet.
The kill-chain →
Clearance Diving & EOD Support
Autonomous detection of mines and unexploded ordnance on the seabed and on ship hulls — so a contact is characterised before a diver ever enters the water.
Diver-out-of-the-loop →
Underwater Infrastructure Protection
Repeatable, autonomous inspection of pipelines, cables, ports and foundations — baseline, monitor and detect tampering on the seabed you depend on.
Protect the seabed →
Hydrography & REA
Rapid environmental assessment and survey-grade seabed mapping ahead of an amphibious force or a transit — geo-referenced and reportable through Sambal.
Survey to report →
Harbour & Force Protection
Hull searches for contraband and limpet threats, harbour-seabed baselines and pier inspection — the workhorse tasks of a coast guard and port security force.
Coast guard & police →
Search & Recovery / HADR
Rapid deployment to locate submerged personnel, wreckage, aircraft and lost equipment — turning a wide, uncertain search box into a mapped, prioritised one.
Find it fast →The autonomous mine kill-chain
BeeX runs the mine warfare cycle as one continuous, largely autonomous chain — and claims it up to ten times faster than an ROV-based workflow, with the crewed platform held well back.
Detect & Classify
Autonomous survey pairs automatic target recognition with mine-like-object classification to build a complete detection chain across the search area.
ATR + MLOIdentify
The HAUV re-attacks each contact and holds station for high-fidelity 2D/3D visual and acoustic confirmation — mine or not-mine.
2D / 3D ConfirmIntervene
With a manipulator payload, precise stand-off placement of a neutralisation charge is designed to cut diver exposure to the threat.
Stand-off · PANScale
One operator supervises several vehicles at an X-to-1 ratio — turning wide-area search into low-cost swarming instead of a single serial sweep.
1 : X Swarm
Hold station on the mine. Keep the ship over the horizon.
A survey AUV can find a mine-like object but can't stop to prove it; a tethered ROV can prove it but drags a cable and pins a host vessel on top of the threat. The HAUV does both — it hovers on the contact for a confident identification, then, if tasked, intervenes at stand-off — all while untethered and under emission control.
- Covert, untethered operation in contested or denied water
- Aligns to the classic MCM cycle — Detect · Classify · Identify · Neutralise
- Buried & non-metallic mine detection with the ELWAVE TETRAPULSE sensor
- Manipulator-based intervention via an integrated Reach Alpha manipulator
*"10x faster target-to-engage kill-chain" and swarm/ratio figures are BeeX's stated claims. Detect–Classify–Identify–Neutralise is the standard MCM cycle; BeeX presents its chain as Detect & Classify → Identify → Intervene.
Send the robot first. Keep the diver dry.
Clearance divers and EOD teams carry the highest personal risk in the maritime force. The HAUV changes the sequence: it autonomously sweeps the seabed and ship hulls for mines and unexploded ordnance, re-acquires and characterises each contact, and hands the diver a precise, geo-referenced target picture — so a diver only enters the water when, where and if the mission truly requires it.
- Autonomous mine & UXO detection on seabeds and ship hulls
- Contacts characterised and located before diver entry
- Reduces time-in-water and exposure for clearance teams
- Hull search for limpet mines and foreign objects alongside
The seabed is now a front line
Pipelines, power and data cables, ports and offshore installations sit exposed on the seabed. Protecting them means seeing them — regularly, autonomously and on your own schedule, not an adversary's.
Baseline it, monitor it, prove what changed
Because a HAUV survey is autonomous and repeatable, every pass over a pipeline, cable route or harbour approach lands in the same geo-referenced workspace. Sambal keeps a per-asset history, so an operator can compare surveys over time and see exactly what has moved, been damaged or been interfered with — the evidence base for protecting national underwater infrastructure.
This is not theoretical in Europe: A.IKANBILIS has already inspected hard-to-reach port areas on the continent, and BeeX runs a European base in Rostock on the Baltic — the same repeatable seabed inspection a navy or coast guard needs to watch its own cables, pipelines and harbours.
- Autonomous scanning of ship hulls and seabed environments
- Pipeline, cable, port and energy-infrastructure route inspection
- Per-asset inspection history for change & tamper detection
- Deployable at short notice from a small craft or USV
Constabulary tasks, without a dive team on standby
Not every underwater job is a mine. Coast guards, marine police and port authorities face a daily workload of hull searches, seabed baselines and recoveries — and a HAUV hand-launched from a patrol boat covers most of it.
Hull & Contraband Search
Autonomously search a vessel's hull and sea-chests for limpet threats, parasitic containers and narcotics — repeatable and recorded, without putting a diver alongside an unknown ship.
Harbour & Approaches Baseline
Map the seabed of a port, anchorage or approach channel and re-run it on demand — for security sweeps ahead of a port visit, or after an incident.
Search, Evidence & Recovery
Locate submerged bodies, vehicles, weapons and evidence with a mapped, geo-referenced search — narrowing an uncertain area into an actionable target list.
No mother-ship required
The lightweight ALPHA travels as carry-on cases and launches by hand from a RHIB or a harbour launch — no crane, no dive spread, no dedicated survey vessel. For a coast guard or marine-police unit, that means a subsurface search-and-inspection capability that rides on the boats already in service.
- Hand-launch from a RHIB, dinghy or harbour craft
- Man-portable ALPHA — 53 kg, carry-on cases
- Two-person crew, in the water in minutes
- Results reviewed on any browser, ashore or afloat
Turn a search box into a target list
After an incident — a lost aircraft, a sunk vessel, a person overboard, ordnance to recover — the hardest part is the size of the uncertainty. HAUVs deploy fast, run autonomous search patterns across the box, and surface classified contacts with a position on each, so recovery effort goes to the right spot instead of the whole area.
- Rapid deployment to locate submerged personnel and wreckage
- Autonomous area search with AI contact flagging
- Geo-referenced targets handed straight to recovery teams
- Supports disaster-response and post-incident survey
Launch from anything. Clear at scale.
BeeX designs its HAUVs to launch and recover from an unmanned surface vessel or to be hand-launched from a RHIB or dinghy — then to work autonomously while the crewed platform stays out of the threat area. On the roadmap, the CASPER concept extends this into low-cost, attritable swarming for the highest-risk mine and security work.
Discuss your mission requirement
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For a mission-specific capability brief, spec sheets, pricing or to arrange a briefing or demonstration — on this system or any platform in the SepcoTech defence portfolio — contact me directly:
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