Logbook
What has been done,
what is being prepared.
The project’s milestones, in the language of the field: every entry maps to a verified fact, with its real status. Nothing is written here before it has happened.
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North Atlantic campaign
HYDRO-01 field-tested
A campaign from Brittany to the Faroe Islands — convoy by road and ferry, sea trials in Faroese coastal waters: supervised autonomous navigation, communications, energy management, solar integration, acoustic missions. Every sortie reveals technical limits and feeds the next iterations. Iceland is under consideration next.
The HYDRO-01 prototype -
Hydronaute
The boat is being prepared
The Renaud 8000 hull (1987) is restored, the boat available, the base fit-out done. Integration of the EXO-01 exoskeleton, scientific equipment and the regulatory framework are under way — service remains subject to the mooring framework and required authorisations.
Discover L'Hydronaute -
EXO-01 · La Mutine
EXO-01 construction has begun
Aluminium chassis under assembly, corner plates and rosettes cut, structural frames standing — the retrofit exoskeleton platform is taking shape at La Mutine's workshop. Build photos published on the EXO-01 page.
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EXO-01 · La Mutine
The EXO-01 assembly is drawn
The assembly design — X-braced modular structure on floats, boarding platform, corner plates — is established with build partner La Mutine. The technical plate is published on the exoskeleton page.
The assembly plate -
EXO-01
The exoskeleton in development
The modular, reversible structure designed to equip existing hulls is in development around the Hydronaute. Each envisaged function — solar, electric drive, sensor modules — is validated in stages.
The EXO-01 exoskeleton -
Funding
Seed financing secured — €100,000
Honour loans, innovation support and founder contribution, raised from Réseau Initiative, France Active, Nantes Transition and Bpifrance — with no equity given up. A first equity round is in preparation.
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Trashure Island
The game presented in Nantes, then London
Trashure Island was presented in Nantes with the City of Nantes and Plastic Odyssey, then at London Climate Week. Every run contributes, anonymously, to an experimental corpus of navigation decisions.
Play Trashure Island -
BIUTOPIC
Founded in Nantes
BIUTOPIC SAS is founded in Nantes — a social and solidarity economy (ESS) company, ESUS-accredited, driven by a social and environmental mission.
The BIUTOPIC mission