Ulysses

Ulysses builds autonomous surface and subsea vehicles and supporting software for maritime operations. The company frames its offering as vertically integrated hardware and software intended to provide persistent maritime capability for two broad mission sets: restoring marine and coastal ecosystems, and defending critical maritime infrastructure. Its stated rationale is that the ocean underpins global trade, ecological resilience, energy production and digital connectivity, while climate disruption and geopolitical tension increase pressure on the domain.

The product line centers on an integrated surface-and-subsea system. Kraken is an autonomous launch, recovery and recharge system designed to let missions be executed remotely from start to finish without human intervention or oversight. Mako is a family of autonomous underwater vehicles for long-duration missions spanning ecological restoration and subsea surveillance, announced as coming in 2026, with a stated 72-hour endurance, 200 lb maximum payload and 5,000 ft depth rating. The vehicles are described as modular, with swappable modules and payloads, capable of inter-vehicle communication to enable swarming, and able to carry robotic payloads for intervention tasks such as infrastructure repair or seed planting.

Business model

Ulysses develops and sells vertically integrated maritime autonomy products, combining its own hardware (autonomous underwater vehicles and the Kraken launch, recovery and recharge system) with the software that operates them, positioning the combined system as a replacement for fragmented legacy tooling. The modular vehicle architecture allows customers to change modules and payloads to reconfigure a single vehicle for different subsea tasks.