A dual‑use R&D studio at the frontier of maritime motion engineering. With and for our partners we develop the hardware and software that disrupt industries and keep allied navies ahead.
Radical Builders grows by finding Builders
Unlimited operational range through solar harvesting. Three missions on one platform: Kelp Blue harvesting, persistent ISR, and effector deployment.
Relative autonomous positioning system for submarine sensor calibration, high-precision station-keeping without GNSS, validated with defence end-users.
Large-scale additive manufacturing for naval and dual-use hulls, printed structures that move from CAD to seaworthy in weeks, not years.
Next-generation composite landing craft for defence end-users. Lightweight, high-speed, dual-use amphibious platform.
Measured how far launch and recovery can be pushed in real sea states, and what has to change on deck to widen that window. The workability baseline behind our system-interaction work.
Granted under Kansen voor West: collecting stabilised subsea data by aerial deployment, no support vessel required. Commercial and defence missions on the same architecture. Details under the membership gate.
A dual-use USV engineered around one idea: the platform holds still, so everything on it works in more weather, drones landing, subsea systems launching, heavy survey sensors reading the seabed. Motion engineering made hardware, printed geometry throughout. Offered as a system, or as data.
Now open: launch customers (system or data), defence end-users, wind park operators, survey companies, ports · consortium partners · backers.
A system that can grab a moving underwater vehicle and bring it home, launch and recovery as a controlled docking, not a fishing exercise. Two moving bodies, one contact moment: the hardest motion problem we work on.
Now open: development partners and end-users with UUV fleets or recovery needs.
The Radical mission
Defence R&D dies in the gap between defining an operational need and the companies that could build it. End‑users can't talk freely, builders can't get in the room, capital sits on the sidelines. That's the gap Radical Builders closes: we lead the consortia where industry and government build together.
Three ways in
Shape and software, one design. Motion control lives in geometry and in code. We engineer both. Designed for additive manufacturing, so complexity costs nothing extra.
Low-Speed stabilisation and positioning
Stable when there is no speed to help: from lying still to running survey lines.
Launch, recovery and docking
The moment hardware meets hardware: launch, recovery, towing, landing.
High-speed stabilisation and guidance
Speed turns the water into an actuator: hull, foils and control as one system.
The venture engine
We're looking for entrepreneurial engineers who want to become Radical Builders, work on the most challenging R&D, and start their own spin‑off with our partners in the network.
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A dual‑use R&D studio at the frontier of maritime motion engineering. With and for our partners we develop the hardware and software that disrupt industries and keep allied navies ahead.
Radical Builders grows by finding Builders
The Radical mission
Defence R&D dies in the gap between defining an operational need and the companies that could build it. End‑users can't talk freely, builders can't get in the room, capital sits on the sidelines. That's the gap Radical Builders closes: we lead the consortia where industry and government build together.
Three ways in
Shape and software, one design. Motion control lives in geometry and in code. We engineer both. Designed for additive manufacturing, so complexity costs nothing extra.
Low-Speed stabilisation and positioning. Stable when there is no speed to help: from lying still to running survey lines.
Fixed scopeStarts with a conversation
Hire us for thisLaunch, recovery and docking. The moment hardware meets hardware: launch, recovery, towing, landing.
Fixed scopeStarts with a conversation
Hire us for thisHigh-speed stabilisation and guidance. Speed turns the water into an actuator: hull, foils and control as one system.
Fixed scopeStarts with a conversation
Hire us for thisThe venture engine
We're looking for entrepreneurial engineers who want to become Radical Builders, work on the most challenging R&D, and start their own spin‑off with our partners in the network.
Start a conversation