What we build
Replenishable autonomous platforms and mission-support systems for civil, security, and defence applications.
Company
Andrasta Marine controls the architecture connecting autonomous vehicles, hydrogen-electric energy, payloads, replenishment, manufacture and mission logistics.
Origins
Ruggedness is not a finishing specification. It is a consequence of understanding where a system must remain useful.
Founder and Technical Lead Rhodri Hawkins grew up in Shetland, where severe weather, cold water, remoteness, and long support chains turn maintainability and practical usefulness into immediate engineering concerns. Offshore work still carries substantial vessel, fuel, weather, cost, and environmental overhead where available technology forces repeated intervention. That experience shaped Andrasta's focus on robust systems that reduce avoidable offshore activity rather than merely perform well in controlled conditions.
Before moving into hydrogen systems, Rhodri worked as an engineer in the water sector, developing an early grounding in regulated infrastructure, environmental responsibility, and long-life assets. He subsequently spent more than five years making high-consequence technical decisions across regulated hydrogen and multi-energy projects.
In 2025, aged 26, he became the youngest person ever awarded Chartered Chemical Engineer status by IChemE, a record that remains unbroken. Andrasta Marine brings that career path together: North Atlantic operating reality, disciplined process engineering, and a whole-system approach to energy, logistics, payload, manufacture, and lifecycle.
Shetland
North Atlantic operating context
Water sector
Infrastructure + lifecycle grounding
Chartered at 26
Youngest awarded by IChemE
Edinburgh
Engineering Centre of Excellence
Replenishable autonomous platforms and mission-support systems for civil, security, and defence applications.
A focused system-authority model: retain control of the platform architecture and integrate specialist capability through explicit partner, supplier, IP, and assurance boundaries.
Remain asset-light through early development, adding dedicated production capacity only when customer commitments justify repeat manufacture.
Scale-up model
Scale is designed into the architecture rather than deferred to production. Manta closes physical, integration, and manufacturing risk quickly; AndraSound establishes the repeatable mission platform; and common energy, power, payload, autonomy, handling, and service interfaces carry validated modules and evidence between programmes.
Andrasta remains asset-light through development, integrating specialist capability where partners are stronger. Production will be centralised when committed fleet demand supports repeat tooling, qualified suppliers, and dedicated capacity. Customer-specific capability is concentrated in configurable payload, software, and mission-system layers, limiting the need to redesign the underlying vehicle for each application.
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Close physical risk
Rapid build-test learning
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Carry evidence forward
Common modules + interfaces
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Configure capability
Payload + mission layers
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Repeat manufacture
Capacity against fleet demand
Founder + technical lead
Chartered Chemical Engineer · CEng MIChemE
More than five years' experience in high-consequence system design and technical decision-making across regulated hydrogen and multi-energy projects.
I founded Andrasta Marine on the belief that extreme endurance and adversarial operation in an uncrewed context demand a different design starting point. Energy, logistics, replenishment, geometry, acoustic behaviour, payload, manufacture, and lifecycle must be treated as one coupled system problem - not assembled by adding hydrogen or more batteries to an existing development platform.
Across the mission profiles studied and simulated, hydrogen has justified its integration only where it creates additional system-level value. Andrasta Marine's systems combine replenishment, biomimicry, and geometric multiphysics design with protected IP and retained engineering know-how to pursue greater endurance and, where the architecture allows, simpler supporting systems. Each platform is configured for model-based iteration, manufacture, long service life, and reuse.
After more than a year of design iteration, simulation, and component testing, our first system is in physical development. We are now preparing the systems for independent validation and opening discussions with development partners, licensees, distributors, and test operators.
The platforms are designed as endurant flexible hydrogen-electric hybrids from the outset, supporting quiet, efficient propulsion and emerging payload demands without surrendering robustness, practical logistics, or a credible route to fleet-scale unit cost.
Operating principles
Own the physical platform architecture, energy integration, marine packaging, interfaces, and the engineering evidence that connects them.
Integrate specialist autonomy, command-and-control, sensing, fabrication, test, and assurance capability through explicit technical and commercial boundaries.
Use test data, configuration history, and mission feedback to improve the platform family and compound learning across the programme.
Governance + supplier readiness
Responsible use, security, quality and supplier controls are being built alongside the engineering programme, not added after a customer asks for them.
Lawful end use, defined operating boundaries, accountable human decisions, and clear escalation for ethical or security concerns.
Information and cyber security, export-control and sanctions review, controlled technology transfer, and proportionate customer due diligence.
Anti-bribery, conflicts, counter-fraud, AML risk, modern-slavery risk, supplier conduct, and proportionate counterparty checks.
Controlled requirements, hazards, configuration, testing and corrective action, alongside maintainability, reuse, operational disturbance, and end-of-life planning.
Qualification pathway
Quality, document and configuration control, supplier assurance, non-conformance, corrective action, and test evidence.
Cyber security controls aligned to MOD Cyber Security Model v4 supplier expectations and customer-assigned Cyber Risk Profiles.
Core policies, registers, supplier controls, due-diligence evidence, improvement planning, and customer-specific responses.
Customer and partner discussions can address the applicable quality, cyber, export, supply-chain, business-integrity and responsible-use requirements directly.
Discuss assuranceProgramme status
The platform family advances through physical development, pre-integration design and independent evidence.
Physical development
The first prototype was completed in Q2 2026, with first water trials planned for Q4 2026.
RD&D ongoing
Platform architecture and pre-integration design are defined while research, design, and development continue.
Validation pathway
The robotic replenishment system is planned to undergo independent testing as its controlled development programme advances.
Careers
Andrasta Marine expects to recruit selectively across marine engineering, autonomy, energy systems, manufacturing, test and assurance as customer programmes mature.
Future opportunities will be published here as testing, customer programmes, and production demand justify them. Specialist partners and suppliers can still introduce relevant capability through the contact route.