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Hydrographic survey
- Seabed and coastal mapping
- Survey lines run autonomously since October 2026
Hyarks platform · four-line survey with live wind and current
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Unmanned scout vessel for tuna fleets
Building the robotic layer for the ocean
TF-100 is an unmanned scout vessel built to run ahead of your purse seiner and show the wheelhouse where the fish are: from below with its echosounder, and from the air with a tethered drone coming at the end of 2026.
- 10 Aug 2026 · TF-100 launched in Tainan
- Sea trials · Since September 2026 · autonomous survey lines since October
- Champion · Global Agrifood Innovation Championship, Taiwan 2026
Real footage · TF-100 sea trials · Kaohsiung
The problem
Tuna fleets still search the old way
Purse seiners find schools with helicopters, fast boats, or by steaming their FAD lines one by one. Every hour of it burns fuel, crew time and daylight.
Illustration
The problem
Tuna fleets still search the old way
Purse seiners find schools with helicopters, fast boats, or by steaming their FAD lines one by one. Every hour of it burns fuel, crew time and daylight.
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Helicopters
Costly to fly, grounded by weather, a risk to the crew on board.
- Risk
- High
- Cost
- High
- Unreliability
- High
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Fast boats
Manned and fuel-hungry. They see the surface, not the school.
- Risk
- Medium
- Cost
- High
- Unreliability
- Medium
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Steaming FAD lines
The seiner itself checks every FAD, full or empty.
- Risk
- Low
- Cost
- High
- Unreliability
- Medium
The vessel
TF-100
Tuna Finder
The autonomous, multi-purpose workforce of the ocean
A 20-knot unmanned vessel with a fish-finding echosounder below and a deck hangar for a tethered drone above. One platform for the air, the surface and the water column.
Specifications
- Top speed (design)
- 20kn
- Endurance at top speed (design)
- 600+NM
- Tether height (design)
- 100m
- 01Spot from the air
- 02Measure from below
- 03Stream to the wheelhouse
- 04Run it your way
In the air
A drone on a tether, 100 m above the sea
TF-100 carries its own tethered drone. It lifts off from a hangar on deck, climbs up to 100 m, streams live video to the wheelhouse and lands back on board. Coming at the end of 2026.
- Tether height (design)
- 100 m
Preparing 3D viewer
Ground view
Drone camera
Autonomy
Fully autonomous, from the keel up
A small team built the whole stack from the ground up, in record time: no subcontractors, no licensed autopilot. All six layers, from machinery and power up to the AI agent, are our own work and run as one system.
Real recordings, TF-100 in Kaohsiung
- L6
AI agent
Describe the mission in plain words. The agent builds it, runs it and reviews the results with you.
- L5
Missions
Search, follow, hold and return home, planned on the chart and run unattended.
- L4
Navigation
Plans its own route, keeps clear of every obstacle and holds position when it needs to.
- L3
Perception
Every sensor on board fused into one live picture of the sea around the vessel.
- L2
Control
Engines, steering and thrust under closed-loop control, with safeguards that always fall back to a safe state.
- L1
Machinery and power
Every valve, breaker, pump and battery under our own control system, monitored live from shore.
The software · Hyarks Portal
Two apps, one stack
Fully built in-house
A state-of-the-art command-and-control (C2) platform. Every system on board monitored and controlled in detail; we run the vessel from here.
Real screen recordings, sped up
Full lifecycle
We build it, run it and keep it running
Designed and built in Kaohsiung by the team that operates it. Leased by the month, with the vessel, drone, sensors, remote operations and maintenance included.
TF-100 design model
01Design
Hull, systems and software engineered in-house.
Hull complete, Kaohsiung yard
02Build
Fabricated and integrated in Kaohsiung.
Sea trials, Kaohsiung harbour
03Operate
Run by our own crew and operators, at sea and from shore.
Night shift on board, Kaohsiung
04Maintain
Serviced and improved with every mission it runs.
Beyond fishing
Same hull, more missions
The sensors that find tuna also map the seabed and watch a coastline, between fishing seasons.
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Offshore wind
- Wind-farm site assessment
- Drone blade inspection
Illustration
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Coastal and port security
- Coastal surveillance
- Port and border security
- Law-enforcement support
Fleet Command simulation · fast-craft raid, Taiwan Strait
News
Latest from Hyarks
Hyarks at SWITCH 2026 in Singapore
Hyarks is one of 33 Taiwanese startups exhibiting in the Taiwan Pavilion at SWITCH 2026 in Singapore, from 27 to 29 October.
Model Predictive Control at Sea
On 19 October 2026, TF-100 ran waypoint and survey missions under model predictive control. Station-keeping trials followed on 19 and 20 October.