Aquadrone · Delivered with Maritime Robotics
Delivered in partnership with
When pollution moves,
your clean-up needs to move with it.
Floating waste does not stay where it first appears. Wind, tide, current and vessel movement carry it across the harbour and into places a fixed collector cannot always reach.
Aquadrone is a battery-electric autonomous surface vessel that moves through sheltered water to gather floating rubbish. It extends the reach of Aquapod during day-to-day operations and strengthens the response when an incident spreads pollution across a wider area.
Use it with Aquapod or as a mobile capability in its own right.
Available to purchase or hire for planned operations, trials, seasonal requirements, emergency response and recovery.
The challenge
The water does not leave pollution
where you found it.
Your team can clear one corner in the morning and find the same rubbish somewhere else by afternoon.
An incident can be contained at source while wind and current keep redistributing what has already escaped.
Aquapod continuously works at the places pollution gathers.
Aquadrone goes after what moves beyond them.
One platform · Two roles
Part of the daily system.
Ready for the exceptional day.
Aquadrone earns its place in two very different moments.
Ongoing harbour cleaning
Planned autonomous missions extend coverage across berths, pontoons, harbour walls and sheltered areas beyond a fixed collection point.
Aquadrone gathers floating material while the harbour team retains remote oversight of the operation.
Mobile collection for the water between your fixed interception points.
Emergency response and recovery
When a spill, release or sudden influx creates a moving surface-pollution problem, Aquadrone can be deployed within an agreed operating area to collect floating material and support containment activity.
It can continue working into the longer recovery after the immediate response has ended.
An incident can happen in a moment. Recovery keeps moving with the water.
How it works
Plan the mission.
Reach the pollution.
Recover what is found.
- 01
Plan
Define the operating area, route, launch point, recovery point and operator responsibilities.
- 02
Navigate
Run a planned autonomous mission using Maritime Robotics’ navigation and control system, with remote operator oversight.
- 03
Collect
V-shaped arms guide floating litter, plastics and organic debris into the onboard collection area.
- 04
Return or transfer
Bring the recovered material back to an agreed handover point or transfer it into Aquapod when the combined configuration is used.
- 05
Record
Record the mission and recovered material through the agreed evidence process, including Clean Impact View where appropriate.
What Aquadrone adds
Mobile reach without sending a crewed boat after every moving accumulation.
- Battery-electric uncrewed surface vessel
- Autonomous route and waypoint navigation
- Remote operator oversight
- V-shaped surface-waste collection arms
- Access to sheltered and difficult-to-reach harbour areas
- Mobile collection beyond fixed interception points
- Transfer of recovered material to Aquapod
- Support for containment-boom deployment and retrieval where appropriately configured
- Mission and recovered-material recording
Aquapod + Aquadrone
One holds the line.
One moves beyond it.
Aquapod is fixed at a known accumulation point and can work continuously.
Aquadrone is mobile. It follows planned routes, reaches wider areas and can be brought in when conditions change.
Together, they create a practical harbour-cleaning system: continuous interception where pollution gathers, mobile collection across the water and an agreed route for what is recovered.
AQUAPOD
Continuous fixed interception
Captures floating pollution where it repeatedly accumulates.
AQUADRONE
Mobile autonomous collection
Reaches pollution across the wider harbour and responds when the normal pattern changes.
CLEAN IMPACT VIEW
Recorded evidence
Helps record what has been recovered and the action being taken.
Use each component independently or combine them around the needs of your water.
See it working
The difference becomes obvious
when the system moves.
Aquadrone is easier to understand when you see it working on the water.
Mobile surface collection
Aquadrone moves through harbour water and guides floating debris between its V-shaped collection arms.
Aquadrone transfers to Aquapod
Norwegian field footage showing the mobile Aquadrone collecting material and transferring it into the fixed Aquapod. Aquadrone reaches it. Aquapod receives it.
Floating rubbish does not remain evenly spread. It moves. Aquadrone is designed to navigate, identify and collect it, then empty the recovered material into Aquapod.
Silent field footage · English summary provided
From the water to the evidence
Aquadrone development footage showing remote oversight, autonomous movement through harbour water and the engineering behind the platform.
Aquadrone field-development footage. The capability is delivered by NETZERO Alchemists in partnership with Maritime Robotics.
The partnership
Clean-water purpose.
Maritime autonomy.
Aquadrone is based on the Otter uncrewed surface vessel developed by Maritime Robotics.
Maritime Robotics brings the autonomous vessel platform, navigation technology, remote operation and marine engineering.
NETZERO Alchemists brings the clean-water application, Aquapod integration, site assessment, operating model and evidence plan.
Together, we turn maritime autonomy into a practical clean-up and response capability for marinas, harbours and waterfronts.
Aquadrone delivered by NETZERO Alchemists in partnership with Maritime Robotics.
Explore the Maritime Robotics Otter platform →
Additional mission capability
The platform can do more when the harbour needs it.
Depending on its configuration, the Maritime Robotics platform can also support containment-boom deployment and retrieval, sonar and seabed mapping, environmental monitoring and inspection.
These are additional mission options. The primary Aquadrone purpose on this page remains floating-pollution collection and response.
How to access Aquadrone
Own the capability.
Or bring it in when the situation demands it.
Aquadrone is available through more than one commercial route. The right option depends on your water, operating requirement and the length of time you need it.
Purchase
For ports, harbours and marinas that want a permanent mobile clean-up and response capability as part of their operating infrastructure.
The proposal defines the configuration, launch and recovery arrangements, operator requirements, support and integration with Aquapod or Clean Impact View where appropriate.
Discuss purchasing Aquadrone→Hire / rental
For a demonstration, defined trial, seasonal pressure point, planned clean-up, project or recovery period.
The hire plan defines duration, mobilisation, operator arrangements, collection and handover, and the evidence required.
Discuss hiring Aquadrone→Emergency response and recovery
For an incident that has moved pollution beyond the normal cleaning pattern.
The deployment plan defines the operating area, mobilisation, containment interface, recovered-material handover and duration of the response.
Discuss response availability→Every deployment begins with a short operating-fit conversation covering location, water conditions, access, operator arrangements and timing.
Next step
Show us the water
you need to reach.
Tell us what keeps moving, where it gathers and whether you are planning for daily operation, a defined hire period or an incident.
We will help you decide whether Aquadrone, Aquapod or the combined system is the sensible response.
Talk to us about Aquadrone→