Manifesto

Shared infrastructure
for living systems.

Ecological design, engineering and science for the living world.

BIUTOPIC builds surface robotics platforms — HYDRO-01 was field-tested in the Faroe Islands in 2026 — and is developing the conversion of existing boats, eventually larger ones too, into electric, instrumented research platforms. The retrofit is EXO-01, a reversible external structure (prototype in build at La Mutine since 07/2026) designed to fit from the outside: no change to the hull, no need to lift the boat out of the water.

BIUTOPIC in brief

BIUTOPIC is an ESS and ESUS company with a social and environmental mission, based in Nantes, France. L'Hydronaute, a restored boat, is the first meant to carry EXO-01; it is in preparation. See the boat →

Values

Regeneration Repair and enrich ecosystems, not merely preserve them.
Simplicity Accessible solutions suited to their setting, nothing superfluous.
Symbiosis Bring disciplines, humans and non-humans to work together.
Transmission Share what we learn — make the invisible visible.
Responsibility Build only what serves the environment and the people who live in it.

Mission & vision

To turn what already exists into shared infrastructure for observing and protecting aquatic environments, and to make field research more accessible. We want technology that sides with the living world — sober, sensitive, replicable — where every invention helps restore ecological balance.

Our compass: living within nature, without weighing on it.