HYDRO-01 · Prototype
Small vessel,
big questions.
HYDRO-01 is the first prototype of the BIUTOPIC platform: a small-scale autonomous vessel, deployed right now in the North Atlantic. Every hour it sails produces real-world data — the data that prepares HYDRO-02, L'Hydronaute.
Expedition log · HYDRO-01
Drag to rotate — HYDRO-01’s voyage across the North Atlantic.
- Completed Brittany → Denmark
- Completed Denmark → Faroe Islands
- Current position Faroe Islands
- Up next Faroe → Iceland
Why the North Atlantic?
The near-constant light of the northern summer
At high latitudes, summer days offer almost continuous daylight. It is an ideal test bench for measuring real solar yield — panels, batteries, the whole energy chain — under conditions few laboratories can reproduce.
Listening to the ocean as it is
HYDRO-01 deploys acoustic recorders to capture the real marine soundscape: ambient noise, shipping traffic, the presence of life. These recordings build a baseline for understanding the sound impact of navigation — and for measuring, tomorrow, the relative silence of HYDRO-02.
Validate before scaling
Autonomous navigation, seakeeping, energy endurance: everything validated at small scale on HYDRO-01 directly informs the design of HYDRO-02 and the modular exoskeleton. The prototype de-risks — the demonstrator carries the public.