Proven at a navy exercise.
Contracted by a defence ministry.
A capability is only as good as its track record. BeeX's HAUV has flagged a live limpet mine for a U.S. Navy exercise, been contracted by a national defence ministry to acquire and co-develop HAUVs, and logged operating hours on real subsea structures in real currents. Here is the evidence, with its sources named.
A limpet mine, found by AI
At the U.S. Navy's Advanced Naval Technology Exercise, A.IKANBILIS ran its threat-detection package against a set-up seabed — and its anomaly detection proved out on unfamiliar targets.
Two threats, on targets it had never seen
Conventional ROVs struggled in the exercise: data quality rode on pilot skill and processing was too slow for a military tempo. The HAUV's anomaly-detection software instead identified threats on two set-up targets — a submerged car concealing explosives, and a limpet mine attached to a jetty pile — flagging each for operator confirmation.
It mapped and scanned the pile field in minutes and returned geo-referenced 2D sonar and 3D point-cloud results — collapsing a workflow that had previously taken many hours into one a crew can act on in the moment.
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As published in BeeX's ANTX case study. ANTX–Coastal Trident is a Navy experimentation exercise and endorsement of the technology — not a procurement contract.
A multi-million-dollar defence contract
BeeX states that Singapore's Ministry of Defence — through the Defence Science and Technology Agency (DSTA) — has partnered with it on a multi-million-dollar defence contract for national security applications, to acquire and co-develop Hovering Autonomous Underwater Vehicles.
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A National MoD
The customer is a sovereign defence ministry acting through its science & technology agency — a credential very few underwater-robotics start-ups can point to.
Acquire & Co-Develop
The reported contract covers both acquisition and co-development — a working partnership to mature the HAUV for real naval use, not a one-off sale.
Backed From the Start
DSTA's investment arm, Cap Vista, has backed BeeX since its 2021 seed round — defence-science conviction in the technology from early on.
Per DSTA's announcement of 16 October 2025 and BeeX (“multi-million-dollar defence contract for national security applications”), reported by Asia Pacific Defence Reporter. Exact value and delivered quantities are not publicly disclosed; nothing here implies a specific fielded fleet.
A US$7.7M Series A — and offices in London & Germany
In June 2026 BeeX closed a US$7.7 million Series A led by Monk's Hill Ventures, to expand its fleet, its operational reach and its autonomy platform — with a European footprint that underpins a Europe-wide partnership.
US$7.7M Series A
Closed June 2026, led by Monk's Hill Ventures with SG Growth Capital (SEEDS), ShipsFocus, OCTAVE Capital and NUS Technology Holdings.
A Base on the Baltic
Beyond Singapore, BeeX operates from London and from Rostock, Germany — a European base on the Baltic coast, behind the SepcoTech Europe-wide partnership.
700+ Deployments
Proven across APAC and Europe, with 18,000+ operational hours logged and over a decade of proprietary underwater data.
Autonomy at Scale
Funds are directed at scaling the fleet and the underlying autonomy platform for underwater operations.
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The sensors and tools that make it a mine-hunter
Two concrete, verifiable integrations turn a hovering survey vehicle into an end-to-end mine counter-measures platform — one to find the mine, one to deal with it.
ELWAVE — Find the Buried Mine
BeeX and French sensor company ELWAVE signed a partnership (MoU, 2024) to integrate ELWAVE's TETRAPULSE active electric-field sensor onto A.IKANBILIS. Using bio-inspired electric-field sensing, it detects metallic and non-metallic objects — including mines and ordnance buried in the seabed, where sonar and vision struggle. A European partner directly reinforcing the MCM story.
Active electric-field · buried-target detectionReach Robotics — Deal With It
A Reach Alpha subsea manipulator is integrated onto A.IKANBILIS, giving the HAUV a working arm for intervention, object recovery and probe inspection. It is the physical basis for the fleet's precise, stand-off intervention capability — putting a tool on the target while keeping a diver out of the water.
Manipulator · autonomous interventionDeployed from the fleet you already have
BeeX's own defence concept animations: HAUVs launched and recovered from an unmanned surface vessel, and hand-launched from a dinghy or RHIB — then clearing the seabed autonomously while the crewed platform holds back from the threat.
Official BeeX defence concept animations, showing the untethered mine-hunting CONOPS.
The evidence, on video
Published on BeeX's own channel — the ANTX search demonstration, an autonomous inspection, and the origin of the technology.
Backed by defence science, proven in the field
A 2018 NUS spin-off, backed since seed by DSTA's investment arm Cap Vista and now by a US$7.7M Series A led by Monk's Hill Ventures; under a multi-million-dollar DSTA/MINDEF acquisition-and-co-development contract; with offices in Singapore, London and Germany; integrating a European MCM sensor (ELWAVE) and a subsea manipulator (Reach); field-proven across 700+ deployments in Europe and Asia — and showcasing in Europe at Oceanology International 2026.
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