Where is Exail based?

Exail is based in La Garde, Var, France.

What does Exail make?

Exail has 1 robot model on the DEPLOY registry: DriX (Exail builds both physical robots and the AI that runs them).

Where does Exail operate robots?

Exail is a robot manufacturer and does not directly operate deployments on the DEPLOY registry. Its products are deployed by customer operators; see the company page for the verified deployment record.

Exail has no incidents on record in the DEPLOY registry. This does not constitute a safety guarantee; it reflects the incidents DEPLOY has tracked and verified to date.

Exail · DEPLOY

Overview

Exail is a French high-tech industrial company led by Chairman and CEO Raphael Gorge, specializing in cutting-edge robotics, maritime, navigation, and photonics technologies. The company develops unmanned underwater vehicles (AUVs) and unmanned surface vehicles, and was selected to develop the French Navy's ultra-deepwater AUV.

Verified record

Verified deployments: None on file
Active incidents: None on file

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Models (1)

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Current platform

DriX

DriX is Exail's family of autonomous surface vessels for hydrographic survey and defense mine countermeasures, and the registry entity is scoped to the DriX USV family with Exail, the merged ECA Group and iXblue entity in France, as the corporate parent. It is the strongest commercial candidate in the maritime set, running the CortiX autonomy stack that provides supervised autonomous navigation and obstacle avoidance using cameras, infrared, LiDAR, and radar both at the surface and underwater, with autonomy as the primary differentiator rather than a sensor add-on. The registry records it at mature commercial maturity, with government and defense users including NOAA, which integrated DriX with the survey ship Thomas Jefferson and selected it through its Ocean Exploration Cooperative Institute, the British Antarctic Survey, the Polish Navy, SHOM, and Ifremer. A scale cap-flag applies: Exail cites more than 100,000 hours at sea and more than 1,000,000 nautical miles of autonomous navigation across 25-plus countries, but those are the broader CortiX-platform totals, while a separate Exail page cites more than 15,000 DriX-specific hours across 20-plus DriX units since 2017, and these vendor-reported platform-wide and DriX-specific figures should not be conflated.

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Relationships

MMarine NationaleCustomer

Current leadership (2)

Fabien Baguenard ctosecondary-verified
Jean-Michel Ghidaglia ceosince 2022-01-01secondary-verified

Safety record

No incidents on record for Exail.

Only active incidents are counted. Retracted incidents are excluded from this summary but remain reachable at their canonical URLs.

Operator customers (1)

Marine Nationale1 deployment

Peer companies

Financial state

Reporting basis: private_disclosed
Revenue disclosed: $542900000 (private_disclosed)
Lifecycle stage: mature
Counterparty risk class: low

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Sources (3)

Common questions

What is Exail?: Exail is a French high-tech industrial company led by Chairman and CEO Raphael Gorge, specializing in cutting-edge robotics, maritime, navigation, and photonics technologies. The company develops unmanned underwater vehicles (AUVs) and unmanned surface vehicles, and was selected to develop the French Navy's ultra-deepwater AUV.
Where is Exail based?: Exail is based in La Garde, Var, France.
When was Exail founded?: Exail was founded in 2022.
What does Exail make?: Exail has 1 robot model on the DEPLOY registry: DriX (Exail builds both physical robots and the AI that runs them).
Where does Exail operate robots?: Exail is a robot manufacturer and does not directly operate deployments on the DEPLOY registry. Its products are deployed by customer operators; see the company page for the verified deployment record.
Is Exail safe?: Exail has no incidents on record in the DEPLOY registry. This does not constitute a safety guarantee; it reflects the incidents DEPLOY has tracked and verified to date.

Methodology: Verified · 3 sources (2 primary) · last reviewed 2026-07-03

Verification posture

Verified

High confidence

Review state

Stable

Last reviewed 2026-07-03

Sources by quality tier

2: primary-company-ir; Company IR disclosure
1: unclassified; Unclassified source

The framework is documented at /methodology. Corrections at /corrections. Reviewer: DEPLOY editorial team.

Peer companies

No press coverage on file for Exail yet. Coverage appears here automatically as articles are ingested from our press sources.

Machine-readable surfaces

Markdown mirror: /companies/exail.md
RSS feed: /companies/exail/feed.xml
JSON-LD: embedded in this page’s head
REST API: /v1/companies/5726dfb7-bbf6-4355-a461-63de461da77f
Revision history: /companies/exail/history
Data documentation: /data
Query this programmatically: Deploy MCP

Peer companies

DEPLOY Intelligence Score

25.0/ 100

vs 6 months ago

6-month trend

Peer rankingTop 72% of Maritime

vs funding peers-9.7 ptsbelow funding-adj. expected

Analysis

Clean safety record across 1 verified deployment. Limited public visibility and press coverage relative to peers.

Signal flags

New deployment

Dimension breakdown

Safety Record

95.0MED

Funding Health

10.0LOW

Deployment Scale

7.8MED

IP Activity

5.0LOW

Hiring Signal

0.0LOW

Market Presence

0.0LOW

DEPLOY Intelligence scores are computed from verified registry data: confirmed deployments, disclosed funding rounds, regulatory filings, active job listings, video viewership, and press coverage. Confidence ratings reflect data availability. Scores update nightly.

Last computed: Jul 3, 2026

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