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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.

DriX is a maritime robot built by Exail.

Machine-readable surfaces

Form factor
maritime
Maturity stage
commercial
Lifecycle
active
Deployments
0
ID
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Specs

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specs
DriX USV series: autonomous surface vessel for hydrographic survey + defense mine countermeasures. CortiX autonomy stack: supervised autonomous navigation + obstacle-avoidance (camera/IR/LiDAR/radar, surface + underwater). Made by Exail (the merged ECA Group + iXblue entity, France). Dual-use (survey + defense).
formFactor
maritime (autonomous SURFACE vessel / USV; hydrographic survey + defense MCM; mature commercial)

Supply chain

No verified supply relationships on file. Supply-chain coverage is being added across the registry; check back as the seed populates this model’s suppliers.

Suppliers appear here when verified with at least two strong sources (maker-official / IR / regulatory / standards-body / verified tier-2). Sources are append-only; corrections add new sources rather than rewrite history.

Sources (3)

  1. https://www.exail.com/product-range/drix-series-uncrewed-surface-vessels
  2. https://nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/updates/noaa-ship-thomas-jefferson-tests-innovative-drix-autonomous-surface-vehicle/
  3. https://www.exail.com/news/noaa-ocean-exploration-cooperative-institute-chooses-drix-usv-help-build-next-generation-ocean

Common questions

What is 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.
Who makes DriX?
DriX is made by Exail, based in Paris, France, founded in 2022.
Where is DriX deployed?
No verified deployments of DriX are currently on the DEPLOY registry. DEPLOY records deployments only when verified at a named site with a primary source; absence may reflect pre-deployment, research, or manufacturer-internal use.
What is DriX's maturity stage?
DriX is at the commercial stage on the DEPLOY maturity ladder (research, prototype, pilot, commercial, production). Commercial stage means production-grade deployments are operating at named customer sites.