ENFRES

THE COMPANY BEHIND NEURYTIKA

Celeste EcoFlyers.
Engineering useful intelligence.

Aerospace engineering, embedded AI and explainable prediction—connected by the same ambition: build technology that works in the real world.

Celeste EcoFlyers develops electric aircraft with pneumatic wings and the intelligence to support useful missions. Neurytika is an important branch of that work: making structured data actionable through predictions and evidence people can inspect.

Celeste EcoFlyers pneumatic-wing aircraft prototype outside its hangar
Celeste’s aircraft development program · Photo © Celeste EcoFlyers
Aircraft designed and built in FranceEmbedded intelligenceExplainable software for organizations

TWO CONNECTED ENGINEERING BRANCHES

Build the aircraft.
Bring intelligence closer to the data.

Aerospace puts practical constraints at the center of engineering: mass, energy, operating conditions and the information available when a decision is needed.

Our aircraft and AI activities meet around those constraints. Pneumatic structures address the physical side; lightweight, inspectable computation addresses how data can become a useful signal. Neurytika brings that same emphasis on local processing and clear evidence to enterprise prediction projects.

01 / AEROSPACE

Electric aircraft with pneumatic wings.

Celeste’s dAS20 program uses a pressurized textile wing, with aerodynamic lift and electric propulsion. The current prototype has an 8 m wingspan, and the company records its first take-off on 7 May 2026 at Le Havre airport.

Explore the aircraft program ↗
02 / AI & SOFTWARE

Predictions with visible evidence.

Neurytika combines a classification engine with an exploration workflow. Use structured records, build a model, inspect contributing patterns and integrate the result into your organization’s work.

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PUBLIC MILESTONES

Ideas, recognized.
Hardware, tested.

2024

GreenTech Innovation laureate

Celeste Airships, the company behind the EcoFlyers project, appears among the 2024 laureates announced at VivaTech.

Read the ministry announcement ↗
MARCH 2025

Solar Impulse Efficient Solution

The Ecoflyers dAS10 solution received the Solar Impulse Efficient Solution label on 28 March 2025.

View the labelled solution ↗
MAY 2026

First prototype take-offs

Celeste’s pneumatic-wing prototype progressed from ground tests to first take-offs at Le Havre, covered by the international technology press.

Read Defence Blog’s coverage ↗
JUNE 2026

VivaTech & Impact Builders

Celeste Ecoflyers features in VivaTech’s 2026 press kit through Impact Builders, the program led by VivaTech, Diversidays and L’Escalator.

Read the official VivaTech press kit ↗

THE FOUNDERS

Research meets
hands-on engineering.

Olivier Manette and Benjamin Degasne with the Celeste aircraft prototype at sunset
Olivier Manette and Benjamin Degasne with the prototype · Photo © Celeste EcoFlyers

Olivier Manette

CO-FOUNDER & CEO / EMBEDDED AI

PhD in computational neuroscience and author of the Evidence Ratio Classifier research. His work connects interpretable learning, embedded systems and real-world sensing applications.

Read the ERC publication ↗

Benjamin Degasne

CO-FOUNDER & CTO / AIRCRAFT STRUCTURES

A textile engineer specializing in pneumatic structures and industrialization, bringing materials expertise to the development of Celeste’s inflatable-wing aircraft.

Meet the team on Celeste.aero ↗

WHY EMBEDDED AI IS A STRATEGIC BRANCH

Useful intelligence.
Right where the data is produced.

For an autonomous drone, processing sensor information onboard can help turn measurements into timely mission signals while making deliberate use of computing power, energy and connectivity.

That is why embedded AI is central to Celeste’s development direction. ERC’s one-pass learning approach and explicit evidence connect hardware-conscious computation with a model that engineers can inspect. The same engine provides the foundation for Neurytika’s explainable prediction workflow.

01Sensor measurements

Telemetry and structured observations

02Local classification

An embedded model close to the data

03Useful mission signal

A category with supporting evidence

Timely local signals

Process available measurements on the device and share the resulting category or alert when the mission needs it.

Deliberate resource use

Design the computation around the aircraft’s processing and energy budget, with the learning method and target hardware considered together.

Evidence engineers can inspect

Connect a predicted category to recorded feature combinations and their support, so teams can examine the model’s behavior.

EXAMPLES OF ONBOARD WORKFLOWS TO DEVELOP

Environmental observation

Classify structured environmental measurements into an alert category and prioritize observations for an operator to review during a monitoring mission.

Equipment-state monitoring

Combine recorded vibration, temperature or electrical measurements to identify an operating-state category and provide context for engineering review.

Mission information filtering

Classify structured observations locally and choose which categories of information are most useful to relay to the ground team.

From onboard sensing to customer, quality and fraud records, the shared objective is clear: a useful prediction, computed in the right environment, with evidence people can examine.

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RESEARCH & INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

Published science.
A dedicated IP strategy.

ERC development combines peer-reviewed research with patent filings. The scientific paper presents the learning rule, evaluation protocols and results; the patent applications form part of Celeste’s intellectual-property strategy for the technology.

FRENCH PATENT FILINGFR2510431
US PATENT APPLICATION19/805,651

Under examination

Evidence ratio classifier: A one-pass model for fast incremental learning
F. L. Olivier Manette · Neurocomputing, Volume 659, article 131797.

Read the open-access research ↗

IN THE PRESS

Explore the story
through independent reporting.

Defence Blog

26 May 2026

First take-offs with a pneumatic wing

Reporting on Celeste’s prototype taking off at Le Havre and the engineering behind its pressurized textile wing.

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Clubic

18 May 2026

A French aircraft prototype takes shape

A look at the first tests, the founders and the engineering ecosystem supporting development.

Read the article ↗

TechRadar Pro

28 May 2026

A different approach to aircraft structure

Coverage of Celeste’s inflatable-wing design and its aerodynamic approach to flight.

Read the article ↗
Celeste EcoFlyers

AEROSPACE + AI + IMPLEMENTATION

Meet the company.
Build your next project with us.

Explore Celeste’s aircraft development at Celeste.aero, or talk with our team about a Neurytika software, embedded AI or prediction project.

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