The anchor that never touches the bottom

MANTA (Marine Anchoring Navigation Tow Assist) is a non-contact anchoring system: an autonomous marine robot that holds, positions, and tows your boat using intelligent electric thrust. No anchor. No chain. No contact with the seabed. The first prototype is in the water right now.

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MANTA autonomous marine robot riding on dark open water, dual thrusters visible

Concept render. MANTA production design.

Anchoring hasn't changed in decades. Every drop still drags steel across coral, seagrass, and the marine life below.

  • No anchors
  • No chains
  • No drag
  • No damage

The ocean needs the help. MANTA holds your boat with thrust and GPS instead of steel and weight, so the seabed never knows you were there and trade keeps moving above it.

MANTA holding position at the surface above an untouched seagrass bed
Leave no trace

How MANTA holds you in place

Set it in the water

Tether MANTA to your bow and drop it in. It is designed to deploy in seconds and stow small enough for any transom or dock cart.

It holds you in place

GPS and onboard sensors drive dual vectored thrusters, correcting for wind and current in real time. Position hold without anything touching bottom.

You stay in control

Hold, tow, follow, or run waypoints from your phone. Recall MANTA the moment you are ready to move.

Engineering cutaway of MANTA showing GPS and RTK antenna, IMU and compass, modular battery system, ballast and buoyancy control, and dual vectored thrusters
Concept cutaway: GPS/RTK, IMU and compass, modular battery, ballast control, dual vectored thrusters.
First MANTA prototype hull on the workbench with electronics mounted
First hull, on the bench

The prototype is already swimming

The first hull is printed, sealed, pool tested, and load measured against a pull scale. This page is where the people who want one first get to say so.

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