Eelume
About
About Eelume
Eelume’s current S-series platform is an articulated all-terrain autonomous underwater vehicle designed to remain stable near seabed structures, harbour floors and other complex surfaces. Its body can bend around obstacles and maintain sensor orientation while operating under ice, close to infrastructure or across uneven terrain.
Payloads support sonar imaging, two-dimensional photomosaics and three-dimensional photogrammetry, with processing performed during the mission to accelerate inspection outputs. The vehicle can be deployed from shore, a pier or a small vessel for defence, mine-countermeasure and infrastructure-survey work. The S-series is available for customer orders.
Products
Supply
Funding
- 2021-11-09 - Strategic investment - Equinor Ventures takes minority stake in Eelume
Equinor Ventures acquired a minority share in Eelume after supporting the subsea drone company through early project funding. - source: equinor.com
Investors
- Equinor Ventures - Lead - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2021-11-09
Timeline
Events
- 2025-09-07 - Commercial Order - Equinor acquires Eelume S for subsea inspection
The order covered Eelume S, an all-terrain autonomous underwater vehicle. The system was tied to Equinor subsea inspection use cases.
Source - 2024-04-18 - Partnership - Exail Phins Compact C3 selected for Eelume S-Series AUVs
The S-Series can manoeuvre through 360 degrees in both roll and pitch. The vehicles target survey and inspection in difficult terrain, including hillsides, under ice and beneath vessels. The compact OEM navigation package is intended to fit the S-Series vehicle architecture.
Source - 2021-11-09 - Funding - Equinor Ventures takes minority stake in Eelume
Equinor Ventures acquired a minority share in Eelume after supporting the subsea drone company through early project funding. The investment followed Equinor Ventures project support for Eelume since 2016. Equinor linked Eelume to autonomous underwater inspection and intervention work.
Source - 2021-02-23 - Contract Award - Equinor awards Eelume subsea monitoring module contract
Equinor awarded Eelume, Kongsberg Maritime and DNV GL a contract to develop an environmental monitoring and survey module. The contract extended the Eelume robot platform into environmental monitoring and survey work. The module was intended to add value within Equinor environmental monitoring programs.
Source - 2016-04-18 - Partnership - Eelume partners with Kongsberg and Statoil on subsea robots
The programme focused on snake-like underwater robots for inspection and light intervention around subsea facilities. The NTNU spin-off designed the robots to remain submerged near the work site between missions.
Source
Relations
Relationships
- Statoil / Equinor
Development Partner - Statoil partnered with Eelume and Kongsberg Maritime on subsea inspection robots.
- KONGSBERG
Subsea Robotics Technology Partner - Eelume collaborated with Kongsberg Maritime and Statoil to develop swimming robots for subsea inspection and light intervention.
- Equinor
Contracting Customer - Equinor awarded Eelume and partners a subsea environmental monitoring module contract.
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Context tags
- Subsea inspection - Workflow - Profile source supports this robotics context.
- Subsea robotics ecosystem - Stack Layer - Profile source supports this robotics context.
- Underwater robotics builder - Stack Layer - Profile source supports this robotics context.
Commercial
- Equinor acquires Eelume S for subsea inspection
2025-09-07 · Order / contract · Equinor acquired an Eelume S All-Terrain AUV for advanced subsea inspection.
Source - Equinor awards Eelume subsea monitoring module contract
2021-02-23 · Order / contract · Equinor awarded Eelume, Kongsberg Maritime and DNV GL a contract to develop an environmental monitoring and survey module.
Source