Ray Systems

Ray Systems develops quiet, fin-propelled autonomous underwater vehicles and the NelsonOS autonomy stack. Its RayDrive platform targets subsea inspection, survey, environmental monitoring and defence missions.

Facts

  • Segment: Maritime Robotics
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Website: https://www.raysystems.com/

About

About Ray Systems

Ray Systems is a UK maritime-robotics company building a layered underwater platform. RayDrive replaces a conventional propeller with a bio-inspired oscillating fin intended to improve efficiency, manoeuvrability and acoustic discretion, while the vehicle architecture accepts mission payloads for commercial, environmental and defence work.

NelsonOS provides the autonomy and mission layer across underwater, surface and aerial vehicles, and RayNet is the company's wider concept for connecting distributed ocean sensors and robots. This combination makes Ray Systems more than an airframe supplier: it is developing propulsion, vehicle control and fleet intelligence as one subsea system, with inspection and survey among its clearest near-term applications.

Supply

  • Beam Global - Inbound - Energy Storage - Beam Global will design and supply custom batteries for Ray Systems underwater drones - source: beamforall.com

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Market context

Comparable profiles and adjacent companies connected by shared workflow, capability, or stack position.

  • Nauticus Robotics - comparable profile - peer: Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Builder
  • Ocean Aero - comparable profile - peer: Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Builder
  • Jaia Robotics - comparable profile - peer: Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Builder

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Relations

  • Tiamat Maritime - Preferred Auv Platform And Operating Partner - Ray Systems and Tiamat Maritime are collaborating to deploy and scale RayDrive AUVs for subsea infrastructure inspection and survey missions.

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Deployments

  • Deployment Status - 2026-02-01 - Tiamat Maritime - cold-water subsea inspection - RayDrive completed an operational evaluation with Tiamat Maritime in Southeast Alaska under cold, representative subsea-inspection conditions. - source posture: Company Disclosed - source: raysystems.com

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