# Nauticus tripled its revenue. Its bet on becoming the Microsoft of subsea robotics is the real story. - Date: 2026-04-17 - Category: Robotics Nauticus Robotics pitched its software as the thing that would make human-piloted ROVs obsolete. Then it bought a company of ROV pilots. The autonomy contradiction at the heart of its tripled $5.3M revenue is the actual story. ---