Product profile
HullSkater
HullSkater is Jotun’s remotely operated underwater robot for proactive inspection and non-abrasive cleaning of coated commercial-ship hulls.
Facts
- Company
- Jotun
- Product type
- inspection_robot
- Status
- commercial
- Primary capability
- underwater hull inspection and proactive non-abrasive cleaning
- Website
- https://www.jotun.com/ww-en/products-and-services/solutions-and-brands/hull-skating-solutions/resources/meet-the-hullskater
About HullSkater
HullSkater is Jotun's remotely operated hull-care robot kept aboard a vessel in a portable station with its own launch-and-recovery ramp. Non-abrasive brushes remove developing fouling from the coated hull as part of a proactive maintenance programme. The onboard arrangement supports work in harbour or at anchor, using the robot's supplied power system.
Shore-based operating hubs control the robot and inspect the hull through multiple high-definition camera feeds. Digital records are uploaded to cloud storage for subsequent review. HullSkater is supplied within Hull Skating Solutions, where repeated inspection and cleaning work together with the coating system to manage the vessel's underwater surface.
Market context
https://zlsbkmaixmmnjrgpkcyp.supabase.co/storage/v1/object/public/robotics_assets/products/korthos-product-discovery-batch-45-2026-08-24/jotun-hullskater/jotun-hullskater-official-1600x900.jpg, underwater_hull_crawling_robot, hull_inspection_cleaning_robot, 1600, 900, 9658e512c97f062e9da02927d47f0acf849811ddf0e7b8d18cef85374e9fd2f8, approved_live, 2560, false, jpeg, 1440, Hull Inspection and Cleaning Robot, robotics_assets, official_product_photo_or_render, approved_user_reviewed_1600x900_opaque_no_border, https://www.jotun.com/ww-en/products-and-services/solutions-and-brands/hull-skating-solutions/resources/meet-the-hullskater, first_party_product_page, https://www.jotun.com/ww-en/products-and-services/solutions-and-brands/hull-skating-solutions/resources/meet-the-hullskater, official, https://zlsbkmaixmmnjrgpkcyp.supabase.co/storage/v1/object/public/robotics_assets/products/korthos-product-discovery-batch-45-2026-08-24/jotun-hullskater/jotun-hullskater-official-1600x900.jpg, User-approved exact 1600x900 JPEG output; official product identity confirmed; opaque image with no border, letterbox or transparent background., 2026-08-24T18:04:23.226Z, https://www.jotun.com/ww-en/produ...
Summary
Type: Hull-cleaning robot
Core: Underwater hull care
Function: Inspection and cleaning
Audience: Ship operators
Specifications
- cleaning_modes
- Proactive cleaning with non-abrasive brushes
- deployment
- Portable onboard station with launch-and-recovery ramp
- inspection_sensors
- Multiple high-definition camera feeds with cloud storage
- operating_modes
- Remotely operated from shore-based 24/7 hubs
- power_source
- Self-supplied onboard-station power
Operations
- Deployment environment
- commercial_shipping, ship_hulls, ports, underwater_inspection
- Primary user
- ship_owners, marine_service_operators, port_operators
- Workflow
- hull_inspection, hull_cleaning, marine_asset_condition_monitoring
- Interaction model
- remote_operation, shore_supervision
- Mobility class
- magnetic_hull_crawling_robot
- Product detail
- https://zlsbkmaixmmnjrgpkcyp.supabase.co/storage/v1/object/public/robotics_assets/products/korthos-product-discovery-batch-45-2026-08-24/jotun-hullskater/jotun-hullskater-official-1600x900.jpg, underwater_hull_crawling_robot, hull_inspection_cleaning_robot, 1600, 900, 9658e512c97f062e9da02927d47f0acf849811ddf0e7b8d18cef85374e9fd2f8, approved_live, 2560, false, jpeg, 1440, Hull Inspection and Cleaning Robot, robotics_assets, official_product_photo_or_render, approved_user_reviewed_1600x900_opa...