{
  "id": 3188239,
  "title": "Xera Robotics builds modular underwater robots for inspecting dams, ports and pipelines",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/25/xera-robotics-builds-modular-underwater-robots-for-inspecting-dams",
  "topic": "business",
  "section": "Business",
  "published": "2026-08-25T03:58:59.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "YourStory",
    "slug": "yourstory",
    "url": "https://yourstory.com/2026/08/xera-robotics-underwater-robot"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Xera Robotics, a Chennai-based marine robotics company, has developed modular underwater robots designed for various inspection tasks such as dams, ports, pipelines, and more. Founder Mohana Krishnan Ethirajulu and Muni Venkata Krishna Gopinath created the company in 2018 to address the problem of purchasing purpose-built robots for each specific inspection task, which is unaffordable for most organizations. Xera Robotics offers a modular robot, ROMAR (Remotely Operated Marine Robot), that can be equipped with different payloads for various jobs, making it an economical solution for buyers who inspect occasionally.\n\nThe flagship DeepDive series features position hold technology, allowing the robot to maintain steady positioning while inspecting structures. This is crucial as water movement can make it difficult for a drifting robot to hold a camera steady against a structure long enough to detect cracks. Xera Robotics' robots are used in infrastructure inspection, defence work, environmental monitoring, and industrial inspection in sectors like oil and gas, shipping, and power plants. The company also manufactures electric propulsion systems for boat owners, leveraging the same underwater motor and control engineering as their marine robots.",
  "summary": "The Chennai-based company makes remotely operated marine vehicles that can be reconfigured for different jobs and also builds electric propulsion for boats.",
  "key_points": [],
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  "coverage": {
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    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "EU-Startups",
        "title": "Fresh from €1.2 billion raise, NEURA Robotics acquires Adlatus Robotics to give cleaning robots a “new brain”",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/24/fresh-from-1-2-billion-raise-neura-robotics-acquires-adlatus-robotics",
        "published": "2026-08-24T13:47:54.000Z"
      }
    ]
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}