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NEXOR

About

About NEXOR

NEXOR is a hovering autonomous underwater vehicle designed to manoeuvre close to submerged structures while maintaining stable position and orientation. Its navigation stack combines Doppler velocity logging, inertial sensing, USBL positioning and stereo cameras, enabling planned inspection routes around offshore foundations, pipelines, tunnels and other subsea assets.

Mission payloads can include ultrasonic-thickness equipment, forward-looking or side-scan sonar, environmental probes, manipulators and laser-measurement systems. Operators configure the payload around inspection, scientific or defence requirements, then use the vehicle for autonomous data collection or supervised intervention. The platform remains underwater throughout its mission and is not designed to transition between aerial and subsea operation.

Capabilities

Source-backed capabilities

  • Capability areas: Autonomous navigation
  • Workflows: Maritime domain awareness
  • Operating environments: Outdoor field environment
  • Target markets: Maritime operators, infrastructure teams and inspection providers needing stable underwater imaging.
  • Deployment model: Autonomous underwater vehicle platform for inspection workflows.
  • Robotic inspection

    Claimed - AquaAirX presents NEXOR for inspection and surveillance missions requiring both aerial and underwater access.

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  • ISR and tactical support

    Claimed - AquaAirX presents NEXOR for inspection and surveillance missions requiring both aerial and underwater access.

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Context

Market context

NEXOR is AquaAirX's hovering AUV for precision subsea inspection and high-fidelity imaging.

  • Target environment: Subsea infrastructure, ports, maritime inspection sites and underwater survey environments.
  • Workflow context: Underwater hovering, visual inspection, imaging, confined-site operation and subsea data capture.
  • Customer context: Maritime operators, infrastructure teams and inspection providers needing stable underwater imaging.
  • Deployment model: Autonomous underwater vehicle platform for inspection workflows.
  • Commercial maturity: Emerging product surface.
  • Adoption constraints: Adoption depends on underwater reliability, imaging quality, navigation, support and site conditions.
  • Market position: Underwater inspection platform where stable hovering and imaging quality matter more than range or speed.
  • Adjacent products: AVATAAR, Tethys ONE, BlueHalo Mission Specialist Defender

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