EyeROV company profile
EyeROV builds underwater remotely operated vehicles and inspection services for dams, tunnels, ports, bridges and marine infrastructure. Its ROVs collect visual and sensor data below the surface, helping operators inspect submerged assets without relying on divers.
Facts
- Segment: Maritime
- Country: India
- Founded: 2016
- Website: https://eyerov.com
Profile sections
- Summary
- Market context
- Facts
- Funding
- Investors
- Context / Market Position
- Events
- Team
- Context tags
- Articles
- Sources
Summary
EyeROV builds underwater remotely operated vehicles and inspection services for dams, tunnels, ports, bridges and marine infrastructure. Its ROVs collect visual and sensor data below the surface, helping operators inspect submerged assets without relying on divers.
Market context
Part of a growing wave of maritime robotics companies enabling inspection and maintenance of underwater infrastructure, a largely under-digitized but critical segment of the global economy. ROV platforms for underwater inspection, monitoring, and intervention; marine and industrial subsea operations.
- Capability: Remotely operated vehicles (ROVs)
- Capability: underwater inspection and imaging
- Capability: subsea data collection
- Capability: infrastructure monitoring
- Capability: marine robotics deployment
- Strategic position: Positioned in builders (maritime / deployment)
- Strategic position: underwater robotics for energy, infrastructure, aquaculture, and defense
- Strategic position: maritime robotics segment
Facts
- Website: https://eyerov.com
- HQ: Kochi, India
- Founded: 2016
- Segment: Maritime
- Known funding rounds: 1
Funding
- 2026-02-05 - Pre-Series A - $1M - EyeROV raises ₹13 crore pre-Series A to expand underwater robotics systems - source: linkedin.com
Investors
- AWE Funds - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-02-05
- Unicorn India Ventures - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-02-05
Underwater robots for asset inspection and defence
EyeROV builds underwater remotely operated vehicles for inspection, survey, monitoring and defence use. The company’s value is practical subsea visibility in environments such as dams, tunnels, ports, aquaculture sites and naval facilities.
- Target environment: Underwater infrastructure, dams, hydropower tunnels, marine assets, aquaculture, ports, defence inspection, survey operations and subsea research.
- Deployment model: Hardware-and-services model built around ROV platforms, cameras, tethered operations, inspection support and customer deployments.
- Customer context: Infrastructure owners, energy operators, defence and naval users, aquaculture operators, research teams, inspection contractors and public-sector customers.
- Workflow context: ROV piloting, underwater visual inspection, asset survey, search tasks, data capture, inspection reporting and site monitoring.
- Commercial maturity: Indian maritime robotics builder with visible commercial and defence inspection use cases; strongest in compact underwater robotics and field inspection services.
- Market position: Indian marine robotics builder with field demand from infrastructure, energy and defence inspection.
- Adoption constraints: Adoption depends on water conditions, inspection depth, camera quality, tether management, field reliability, procurement cycles and competition from global ROV suppliers.
- Adjacent context: ROVs, subsea inspection, dam inspection, port security, aquaculture monitoring, naval robotics and underwater data collection.
- Source confidence: high
Events
- 2026-02-05 - Funding - EyeROV raises ₹13 crore pre-Series A to expand underwater robotics systems - Scales production and deployment of underwater inspection robots
- 2022-08-01 - Product Launch - EyeROV launches advanced underwater ROV platform for industrial inspection - Introduces compact remotely operated vehicle for subsea operations
Team
- Johns T. Mathai - CEO and Co-Founder
- Kannappa Palaniappan P. - Co-Founder - Adds founding-team context for EyeROV's underwater drone platform and infrastructure-inspection robotics business.
Context tags
- Subsea inspection - Workflow - EyeROV serves underwater inspection, tunnel, dam, industrial and marine survey missions.
- Underwater robot OEM - Stack Layer - EyeROV builds complete underwater ROV systems.
- Underwater ROV builder - Peer Group - EyeROV builds underwater ROVs including Tuna and Tuna Smart.
- Subsea inspection robotics - Peer Group - EyeROV provides AI-powered underwater inspections, marine surveys and autonomous drones for research and inspections.
- Subsea survey payloads - Capability - Tuna ROVs include HD video, sonar imaging and sensor payloads for inspection.
- Offshore energy assets - Customer Environment - EyeROV cites energy companies among underwater ROV inspection customers.
- Underwater intervention - Capability - EyeROV ROVs include optional robotic manipulators and industrial underwater operations capability.
- Naval defence customers - Customer Environment - EyeROV materials cite Indian Coast Guard and maritime customers.
- Commercial deployment - Commercial Stage - EyeROV has commercial ROV inspection products and project references.
Articles
- 2026-04-06 - Robots are getting good at the jobs humans hate inspecting - The strongest commercial cases are often specialist systems built for hard environments, repeated tasks, and clear operating value. - Korthos: /r…
EyeROV canonical Korthos profile