# Sea Drone World

> Open-access reference database for maritime unmanned vehicles, including USVs, AUVs, ROVs, UUVs, autonomous gliders, and related uncrewed maritime systems.

Sea Drone World currently indexes 253 platforms from 109 manufacturers across 25 recorded countries. Records include source links and record-level verification dates; the latest verification date in this snapshot is 2026-10-08. Data is best-effort and should be checked against the cited primary source for safety-critical, procurement, or operational use.

Preferred citation: “Sea Drone World” with a link to the specific canonical platform, company, or news page. Use the record page rather than this index when citing an individual fact.

Contact (business enquiries, partnerships, press, data corrections): contact@seadroneworld.com

## Primary resources

- [Platform catalog](https://seadroneworld.com/): Search and filter the complete catalog by class, domain, sector, country, manufacturer, or role.
- [News archive](https://seadroneworld.com/news): 202 archived maritime-drone news items with source citations and canonical item pages.
- [Complete plain-text data export](https://seadroneworld.com/llms-full.txt): Full platform records, source URLs, verification dates, and company index.
- [XML sitemap](https://seadroneworld.com/sitemap.xml): Canonical HTML URLs and reciprocal alternate-language annotations.
- Markdown pages: every catalog, platform, company, and news page returns Markdown when requested with `Accept: text/markdown`, or directly under https://seadroneworld.com/md (for example https://seadroneworld.com/md/drone/<slug>).

## Data APIs

- [Platform API](https://seadroneworld.com/api/drones): JSON records; supports q, domain, sector, class, limit, and offset parameters.
- [Compact platform API](https://seadroneworld.com/api/drones?compact=1): Lightweight JSON discovery response.
- [Single-platform API](https://seadroneworld.com/api/drones/SD-S-001): Example full record; replace the final segment with a Sea Drone World record ID.
- [Company API](https://seadroneworld.com/api/companies): Manufacturer and organization summaries with platform counts.
- [Statistics API](https://seadroneworld.com/api/stats): Aggregate counts by vehicle class, domain, sector, and country.
- [News API](https://seadroneworld.com/api/news): News archive with limit, offset, category, entity, date_from, and date_to filters.

## Localized catalogs

- [English](https://seadroneworld.com/): Default catalog.
- [Español](https://seadroneworld.com/es): Spanish interface and localized site navigation.
- [中文](https://seadroneworld.com/zh): Chinese interface and localized site navigation.
- [Português](https://seadroneworld.com/pt): Portuguese interface and localized site navigation.
- [Русский](https://seadroneworld.com/ru): Russian interface and localized site navigation.
- [Bahasa Indonesia](https://seadroneworld.com/id): Indonesian interface and localized site navigation.

## Frequently referenced organizations

- [Exail](https://seadroneworld.com/company/exail): 12 platforms; France.
- [OceanAlpha](https://seadroneworld.com/company/oceanalpha): 10 platforms; China.
- [HII](https://seadroneworld.com/company/hii): 9 platforms; United States.
- [Kongsberg Discovery](https://seadroneworld.com/company/kongsberg-discovery): 6 platforms; Norway.
- [Saab](https://seadroneworld.com/company/saab): 6 platforms; Sweden.
- [Saronic Technologies](https://seadroneworld.com/company/saronic-technologies): 6 platforms; United States.
- [Teledyne Marine](https://seadroneworld.com/company/teledyne-marine): 6 platforms; United States.
- [Anduril](https://seadroneworld.com/company/anduril): 5 platforms; United States.
- [BlackSea Technologies](https://seadroneworld.com/company/blacksea-technologies): 5 platforms; United States.
- [Deep Trekker](https://seadroneworld.com/company/deep-trekker): 5 platforms; Canada.
- [L3Harris](https://seadroneworld.com/company/l3harris): 5 platforms; United States.
- [MARTAC](https://seadroneworld.com/company/martac): 5 platforms; United States.
- [Open Ocean Robotics](https://seadroneworld.com/company/open-ocean-robotics): 5 platforms; Canada.
- [AGISTAR](https://seadroneworld.com/company/agistar): 4 platforms; France.
- [Boxfish Robotics](https://seadroneworld.com/company/boxfish-robotics): 4 platforms; New Zealand.

## Discovery and update feeds

- [RSS feed](https://seadroneworld.com/feed.xml): Recent news items with canonical links and original-source attribution.
- [Robots policy](https://seadroneworld.com/robots.txt): Public crawler access rules and Content Signals (search and AI input allowed; AI training not allowed); the private news-cron endpoint is excluded.
- [Dataset JSON](https://seadroneworld.com/api/drones?limit=500): Paginated structured dataset for programmatic retrieval.

## Optional

- [Full LLM context](https://seadroneworld.com/llms-full.txt): Large document; use only when the task needs many complete records.
- [Full news JSON](https://seadroneworld.com/api/news?limit=500): Large archive response for bulk analysis.