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.

Yes. DriX is independently verified in real-world operation on the DEPLOY registry, confirmed at named deployment sites with primary sources: not a concept, render, or demo-only.

DriX's recorded specifications on the DEPLOY registry: Max speed: 14 kt; Weight: 1380 kg. See the Specs section for the full sourced set.

DriX is made by Exail, based in La Garde, Var, France, founded in 2022.

1 verified deployment of DriX is on the DEPLOY registry, including at Toulon.

DriX is in commercial deployment and is sold to operators; contact the manufacturer to buy, and see the pricing section for any recorded price.

On the DEPLOY registry, comparable maritime_surface robots to DriX include Corsair, Voyager, Surveyor, Saildrone USV (Explorer / Voyager / Surveyor).

DriX and Corsair (Saronic Technologies · 8 deployments) are both maritime_surface robots on the DEPLOY registry. DriX has 1 verified deployment on record. Compare both records for specs, safety, deployments, and verified-vs-claimed autonomy.

On DEPLOY's intelligence score, which blends verified deployments, safety, adoption, media, and IP signals, DriX ranks in roughly the top 54% of maritime_surface models tracked by the registry.

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.

DriX 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.

The Exail DriX is an autonomous uncrewed surface vessel (USV) engineered for maritime operations with modular payloads and flexible deployment systems. The DriX H-9 is the long-range variant, scheduled for delivery in 2026 to a leading global hydrographic authority. Certified and sea-proven for oceanographic and defense missions.