{"id":"d9cbdf5b-a868-47a0-a6e4-d1ca21570dc9","companyId":"5726dfb7-bbf6-4355-a461-63de461da77f","modelName":"DriX","slug":"exail-drix","description":"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.","formFactor":"maritime","maturityStage":"commercial","lifecycleState":"active","supersededByModelId":null,"specs":{"notes":[{"label":"Verified","value":"Exail (the merged ECA Group + iXblue, France) makes the DriX USV family - the strongest commercial candidate in the maritime set. CortiX autonomy provides supervised autonomous navigation + obstacle avoidance; autonomy is the primary differentiator, not a sensor add-on. Government/defense users: NOAA (Thomas Jefferson integration; OECI selection), British Antarctic Survey, Polish Navy, SHOM, Ifremer. maturity=commercial (mature)."},{"label":"Scale (don't conflate - cap-flag)","value":"Exail cites 100,000+ hours at sea + 1,000,000+ nm of autonomous navigation across 25+ countries - but these are the broader CortiX-PLATFORM totals; a separate Exail page cites 15,000+ DriX-SPECIFIC hours and 20+ DriX units since 2017. Both are vendor-reported; do NOT conflate the platform-wide totals with DriX-specific figures."},{"label":"Entity scoping","value":"Scope the entity to the DriX USV family; corporate parent = Exail. (Same scoping discipline as HUGIN under Kongsberg.)"}],"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)"},"manufacturerSerial":null,"reviewStatus":"reviewed","sources":[{"url":"https://www.exail.com/product-range/drix-series-uncrewed-surface-vessels","title":"Exail DriX USV series (CortiX autonomy; 25+ countries; supervised autonomous navigation + obstacle avoidance)","sourceName":"Exail (official)"},{"url":"https://nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/updates/noaa-ship-thomas-jefferson-tests-innovative-drix-autonomous-surface-vehicle/","title":"NOAA Ship Thomas Jefferson tests DriX autonomous surface vehicle","sourceName":"NOAA Coast Survey"},{"url":"https://www.exail.com/news/noaa-ocean-exploration-cooperative-institute-chooses-drix-usv-help-build-next-generation-ocean","title":"NOAA Ocean Exploration Cooperative Institute chooses DriX USV","sourceName":"Exail (official)"}],"aliases":["DriX","Exail DriX","ECA Group DriX"],"collisionRisk":"low","reviewNote":null,"manufacturerTermForTeleop":null,"createdAt":"2026-06-03T21:45:20.397Z","updatedAt":"2026-06-03T21:45:20.397Z","jsonLd":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Product","@id":"https://registry.deploy.report/models/exail-drix","url":"https://registry.deploy.report/models/exail-drix","name":"DriX","alternateName":["DriX","Exail DriX","ECA Group DriX"],"description":"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.","identifier":"d9cbdf5b-a868-47a0-a6e4-d1ca21570dc9","category":"maritime","publisher":{"@id":"https://deploy.report/#organization"}}}