Projects

One system,
three platforms.

EXO-01 demonstrates the retrofit, L'Hydronaute carries the scientific mission, HYDRO-01 proves the robotics in the field. Next aim: EXO-02, for freight, then the sea.

HYDRO-01

Compact environmental monitoring platform

Compact robotic platform for environmental monitoring — autonomous, remotely supervised, tested at sea. ArduPilot, ROS 2 and Jetson-based perception: the stack we then transfer to larger platforms.

Field-tested

Follow the trials

L'Hydronaute

Shared floating laboratory

The shared floating laboratory: a single navigation carries research, baseline data, robotics and citizen science.

Integration and mooring framework in preparation

Subject to the required authorisations.

Discover the boat

EXO-01

Experimental platform of the HYDRONAUTE programme

A reversible retrofit kit designed to add electric propulsion, solar energy, stability and sensors to existing hulls — and, in time, the robotics stack tested on HYDRO-01. Designed to be replicated.

Prototype in development

See the technology

BIUTOPIC's second boat, 12.80 × 4.70 m, the future BIUTOPIC base, before survey and restoration

Next step

The BIUTOPIC base

BIUTOPIC has acquired a second boat, 12.80 × 4.70 m. It will go into dry dock for a survey, then be restored, to become a fixed place on the Erdre, open to the public by booking: workshops, talks, climate cafés, training for adults and professionals, mission preparation. Hydronaute stays the mobile boat. The base is a place to work and to welcome people, not a home.

We will also study whether EXO-01 can move it, a step towards exoskeletons able to move heavier boats — only after thrust, coupling and stability studies.

Envisaged · target 2028