Blue Robotics

Blue Robotics Inc. is a marine robotics company headquartered at 2740 California Street, Torrance, California 90503. The company was founded in 2014 by Rusty Jehangir, who launched a Kickstarter campaign for the T100 Thruster that year, gaining 300 backers and selling 600 units globally. The campaign validated demand for affordable, high-quality underwater propulsion components and led to the formation of Blue Robotics as a commercial entity.

Blue Robotics' core product lines span both complete systems and components for marine robotics. The BlueROV2 is the company's flagship remotely operated vehicle (ROV), designed for research, inspection, and exploration applications. It uses a six-thruster vectored configuration with T200 thrusters, providing control in roll, pitch, yaw, surge, sway, and heave (six degrees of freedom). The BlueROV2 is sold as an assembled kit and is supported by the open-source ArduSub software, which is part of the ArduPilot project. The vehicle has a standard depth rating of 100 meters.

The T200 Thruster is Blue Robotics' most widely adopted product. Designed for underwater operation with a brushless motor and hollow-core design allowing water to flow through the rotor, the T200 has become the most commonly used thruster in the hobbyist and light commercial ROV and AUV market worldwide. Blue Robotics publishes full performance curves, CAD files, and software integration guides for all products.

Beyond ROVs and thrusters, the company sells enclosures, penetrators, cable connectors, underwater lights, cameras, sonars, depth sensors, and buoyancy foam blocks. Their Bar30 depth and pressure sensor and Ping sonar altimeter are widely used in custom-built underwater platforms.

Blue Robotics also produces the BlueBoat, an uncrewed surface vessel (USV) designed for survey, monitoring, and research missions on open water. The company maintains an R&D hub in Canada and a software team in Brazil in addition to its Torrance headquarters.

Customers include universities, government research agencies, private inspection companies, defense contractors, and individual builders. Blue Robotics publishes hardware designs and software under open-source licenses, fostering a large community of developers and users worldwide.