Our vision
European identity has been forged upon the shifting currents of the “Great Sea”, the ancient name for the body of water connecting Europe, Africa and Asia. As the historian David Abulafia famously showed, the Mediterranean was never a void between nations; it was the highway of our civilization, a liquid continent that connected diverse cultures, ideas, and commerce. This Mare Magnum was the cradle of our democratic ideals and our exploratory spirit. It is the domain where Odysseus navigated “the wine-dark sea”—a realm of infinite wonder but also of peril and unpredictability. Today, the ocean is the lifeblood of our modern world, yet we treat it as an afterthought. Coastal and marine environments generate approximately USD 2.5 trillion annually, representing roughly 5% of global GDP and making the ocean the 7th largest economy on Earth.
For Europe, the stakes are even higher: nearly 90% of our external trade and over 40% of our internal trade is carried by ships.
Beneath the surface, subsea fiber-optic cables carry over 95% of all international Internet traffic. Each hour of downtime in these digital arteries results in millions lost in banking, retail, and aviation. The sea is the most critical domain of our century, yet it remains the hardest to operate in. It is now, more than ever, the “wine-dark sea” of the Odyssey: hostile, unpredictable, apparently incontrollable.
The geopolitical relevance of the maritime domain for Europe is increasing. As the Arctic and Northern Sea Route emerge as contested geopolitical theaters, they are plagued by grey-zone operations, by cutting of submarine cables and by the weaponization of “dark fleets” that exploit the vast, unmonitored blind spots inherent to current maritime operations.
Furthermore, the intensifying extreme weather and hostile conditions in these latitudes render traditional human-crewed patrols ineffective, creating perfect cover for adversaries to operate undetected.
Our enemy is not the sea. It is how we navigate and act in a maritime environment which is still the forgotten backbone of our civilization.
We live in maritime world, but we are unable to control it.
We are currently trapped in a fragmented status quo that depends on humans, hulls, and luck.
Our maritime operations are crippled by structural manpower constraints—a global shortfall of qualified officers—and a high human-factor risk, with 75% of accidents linked to fatigue and poor visibility. We rely on occasional patrols that leave vast blind spots, and we respond to critical infrastructure failures with reactive missions that can take up to ten days to mobilize.
In a nutshell, we are still trying to protect a 21st-century economy with 19th-century tools. The future of European civilization will be grounded on the development and control of the blue economy, of the sea domain, and of the maritime supply chain.
This is an existential challenge for Europe and for like-minded countries, in the North Sea, in the Atlantic, in the Middle East.
Now, more than ever, we need to make a leap forward in this area.
Although Europe has experienced a technological retreat in recent decades, the maritime industry is still an area where European leadership is globally relevant.
European shipping stands as a cornerstone of strategic security for energy and supply chains, yet it faces growing geopolitical uncertainty and the need for massive investments in reskilling and decarbonization.
As the Draghi Report highlights, to promote European competitiveness, it is key to ensure true domain control. Europe must lead in the development of maritime autonomy while urgently addressing the vulnerability of its port infrastructures and vessels to increasing hybrid and cyber threats.
It is a key challenge for European builders and technologies.
We want to build the answer to this challenge.
We need a new mindset.
European innovations and European products can respond to Europe's and global security and economic challenges, from both the North and the South, ensuring a specific preparedness for sea operations and for the maritime economy.
Europe has the means and the will to provide products for everyone, based on values of openness.
This new mindset requires controlling and monitoring risks, reducing intervention times, and guaranteeing the safety of civil and military operations.
This is where autonomy, embodied by robotics and artificial intelligence, can step into the maritime picture.
And this is why Europe needs Mirai. And this is what Mirai can bring to the world.
What we build
Mirai builds autonomous systems to make the ocean observable, safe and controllable. Mirai is building the missing ecosystem of the sea, to overcome fragmentation and darkness, to provide persistence and scale in the whole maritime environment.
We are creating a robotics and physical autonomy company to connect sensors, vessels, and missions into a single, intelligent platform. Mirai is not just a point-solution drone or a shipyard; it is a persistent, distributed, and autonomous ecosystem.
Our mission is to make autonomy on the water effortless, intelligent, and accessible for anyone, anywhere. We are building the autonomous vessel to navigate from the dark sea to the intelligent sea.
We design systems meant to operate where humans cannot. Our full-stack platform blends advanced robotics and sensor fusion to transform any boat into an autonomous asset capable of navigating, maintaining, and managing itself. This technological shift allows us to move beyond the limitations of human presence.
While crewed vessels are restricted by cost, fatigue, and the need to return to port, Mirai's autonomous systems enable a long-endurance presence that provides 24/7 coverage and persistence, advantages that no human-centric system can match in terms of safety, costs, connectivity.
Mirai provides an answer to a human skills shortage that is only going to increase. Through our solution, we can make the seas a safe province for all humankind.
We envision a world where ocean access is no longer gated by skill, cost, or complexity—where everyone can move with confidence. From coastal surveillance and grey-zone monitoring to offshore infrastructure inspection and automated docking for yachts, our autonomy layer is fully dual-use. We are ensuring that the sea—the original highway of our civilization—is the next sector to be reinvented by AI.
We are laying the foundation for a new maritime economy, ensuring that our Great Seas remain a space of connection and prosperity for the next thousand years. Our ability to secure this key space will be decided now, in the very near future.
Autonomy is how civilization returns to the sea.
Work with us. Build with us. Operate with us.