About us

Subnexon is a robotics startup, consisting of a team of enthusiastic students from TU Delft.

We started our idea under the name of Mudskipper in the TU Delft Robotics minor. Under contract for MIND (Military Innovation by Doing) our project took the form of a highly modular, compact and mobile underwater drone. We decided to continue this concept and turn it into a fully-fledged company.

Since then, we have been in contact with a large part of the underwater-related industry in the Netherlands, performing customer outreach and building connections. Based on our market analysis, we pivoted from the plan of engineering and selling underwater drones to developing underwater imaging sensors and selling our inspections as a service.

We noticed that companies that maintained underwater infrastructure (such as the water boards) own many thousands of kilometers of facilities underwater. However, current solutions are far too inefficient to actually cover that ground. Inspection is costly, does not cover a large area and is therefore done a single-digit amount of times per year on a few dozen meters at a time. As such, companies and organisations only know when something breaks if it is beyond repair. This is extremely costly, and maintenance and repair costs for underwater infrastructure are rising dramatically. 

As such, we saw a need for a scalable underwater inspection solutions that can efficiently cut through the murky water that surrounds most underwater infrastructure.