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Frontier Robotics

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Edinburgh-based Heriot-Watt spinout (2023) building subsea autonomy and 3D perception software for ROV inspection in offshore energy.

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Company Overview

Frontier Robotics is a subsea robotics software company headquartered at the National Robotarium on the Heriot-Watt University campus in Edinburgh, Scotland. It was incorporated in February 2023 as Frontier Robotics Limited, UK company number SC758604. The company develops software for remotely operated underwater vehicles (ROVs), focused on three technical areas: subsea autonomy, 3D perception, and image-enhancement, with the stated aim of making underwater inspection safer, faster and lower-cost by reducing reliance on surface support vessels, topside crew and manual video review. Its perception and image-enhancement software processes degraded, low-visibility subsea camera footage to make it more usable for inspection and survey work, while its autonomy software is intended to let ROV operators offload navigation and piloting tasks that traditionally require highly trained pilots and dedicated support vessels. The company grew out of research links to Heriot-Watt University's robotics ecosystem and the National Robotarium, one of the UK's national centres for robotics and AI research and innovation. In February 2026, Frontier Robotics secured its first commercial sale through ORE Catapult, the UK's offshore renewable energy research centre, indicating early traction in the offshore wind inspection market. In July 2026, Imenco Future Technologies, an established ROV technology and manipulator-arm manufacturer, made a strategic investment in Frontier Robotics, with both companies citing plans for closer collaboration on product development, integration of complementary technologies, and faster commercialisation of subsea autonomy and perception products for offshore energy, defence, and emerging blue-economy markets. Frontier Robotics does not manufacture ROV hardware itself; it sells software intended to be integrated with third-party ROV platforms operated by offshore energy, defence, and marine survey companies. The company's public technical writing references its involvement with the National Robotarium's engineering community, including contributions from team members such as Jonatan Scharff-Willners, and participation in initiatives connected to Heriot-Watt's Dubai Climate Hub. As of mid-2026 the company has not published detailed headcount, revenue or founding-round figures, consistent with its profile as an early-stage university-linked spinout scaling from research prototypes toward commercial deployment in the offshore energy inspection sector.

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Subsea Autonomy & 3D Perception Software Suite

Software suite providing subsea autonomy, 3D perception and real-time image enhancement for ROVs, enabling safer, faster and lower-cost underwater inspection.

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WEBSITE

https://www.frontierrobotics.ai/

HEADQUARTERS

The National Robotarium, Heriot-Watt University
Edinburgh , Scotland  EH14 4AS

United Kingdom

Company Facts

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2023

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Europe

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