Aggression
Individual habitat and handling matter because crabs cannot simply be managed as one uniform biomass.
Crabionics Aquaculture
Precision infrastructure for mud crab farming.
We are building the production infrastructure and operating layer that makes mud crab farming more controlled, measurable and repeatable.
The opportunity
Premium crab needs predictable production.
Mud crab is a high-value seafood product, but production remains exposed to biological variability, water-quality changes and inconsistent operating practices.
The production problem is not only water management. It is the interaction between the animal, its habitat, the environment and the operator.
Why mud crab
The biology drives the system design.
Crabionics starts with the animal and works outward. Habitat, water, handling and production records are designed around the biology rather than added as separate farm tools.
Moulting
Growth changes the animal's state and creates periods when handling and environmental control matter more.
Water quality
Dissolved oxygen, salinity, temperature and nitrogen compounds can directly affect production.
Traceability
Useful records need to connect the animal, environment, intervention and outcome.
The system
One production system, four layers.
The technology spine connects the physical habitat to sensing, local control and production software.
Habitat
Individual production environment around the crab.
CrabSense
Water-quality and operational telemetry.
CrabPod
Local hardware for flow, flush and other controls.
AquaOS
Production records, rules, decisions and outcomes.
Operating loop
1Sense
2Decide
3Act
4Test
5Learn / Escalate
From farm to platform
Build the production system first. Turn the evidence into intelligence.
01
Habitat
Control the physical production environment around the crab.
02
Telemetry
Capture environmental and operational state with provenance.
03
Operating intelligence
Connect events, SOPs, decisions and outcomes through AquaOS.
Current validation
Four questions, tested in parallel.
Funded R&D, pond production, controlled finishing and commercial work each retire a different risk before scale.
Biology
Can controlled conditions improve survival, growth and moulting outcomes?
Engineering
Can habitat, water treatment, sensing and actuation operate reliably as one system?
Economics
Can controlled finishing produce repeatable unit economics?
Commercial
Can the system create enough value for producers and downstream buyers to adopt it?
BIRAC / IHMS — funded R&D
Pond production — field biology
600-box finishing — controlled production
What we measure
Production evidence, not presentation metrics.
The validation programme is designed to connect biological outcomes to operating conditions, interventions and economics.
Survival
Growth and harvest weight
Molt events
Water quality
Feed and labour
Energy and operating cost
Interventions and outcomes
Cycle repeatability
Institutional backing
Built with support from India's innovation ecosystem.
DPIIT / Startup India
Government startup recognition
BIRAC BIG
Biotechnology Ignition Grant — 24th call
DST NIDHI PRAYAS
Deep-tech innovation support
KIIT-TBI
Technology incubation and ecosystem
For investors
The next capital is for validation.
The objective is to establish repeatable production evidence across technology, biology, economics and commercial demand before scaling deployment.
Investor overview →For producers and processors
Talk to us about the production system.
We are looking for pilot, production, processing and technology partners as the system moves through field validation.
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