Unleashing Constellations of Rugged Ocean Robots
Oshen make & deploy constellations of small, autonomous, rugged robots across the world's oceans.
We’ve spotted a problem.
Data steers almost every decision we make: from routing Ubers through rush‑hour traffic to telling your smartwatch when to stand up. Yet the ocean, which covers 70 % of the planet, regulates our weather & climate, carries 80% of the world’s goods around the globe is still a blank spot on the map. Autonomous surface vessels exist, but nobody has cracked the next leap: tiny, low‑cost robots deployed by the thousand for always‑on, truly global monitoring.
Picture a constellation of C‑Stars, the small, rugged robots Oshen develops & deploys. As a December storm barrels toward the UK, twenty units re‑cluster and stream live weather data, improving flood forecasts along the coast. In a tense geopolitical climate, another constellation listens near subsea cables and pipelines, flagging suspicious activity.
We want to build a world where the oceans are no longer a great unknown. We're a small team that's already made our rugged C-Stars successfully navigate through storms, operate across 3 continents, provide ocean data to key institutes, and we're just getting started.
If a distributed mesh of low‑cost, sensing ocean robots could strengthen your forecasting, security, logistics, or research, let’s talk.
Data provided by our network
Every robot is packed with sensors and relays information on their local environment as often as once a minute. When deployed as a targeted constellation across a wide area, they offer a high-density, long duration data provision currently unavailable through existing technology methods.
Weather & Climate Data
Live information is relayed on meteorological and oceanographic conditions over satellite. Instead of a single, expensive weather buoy, a 5-strong constellation of Oshen robots can closely orbit an area, relaying data.
Passive Monitoring
'C-Star' robots can be fitted with passive acoustic sensors, infrared and visual cameras. Networks of robots create wide area sensing network to detect marine mammals, illegal fishing and more.
Proven partnerships
We're proud to have worked with a wide range of organisations, spanning research, industry and government.
