Credit Metal Shark “This is hard stuff; it’s not automation . this is autonomy . many data streams coming together, more complex algorithms, prioritization of messages, data shedding . we bring machine learning and AI into our computer vision side of our product. ”
Michael G Johnson, Founder, CEO, Sea Machines
While work on maritime autonomy has proceeded at speed globally, a pair of U.S. companies – Metal Shark and Sea Machines – have jumped to the fore in delivering solutions that have evolved from the research & development department to work on the waterways.
When talk turns to “autonomy” in the maritime sector there are more questions than answers. It is generally agreed that the technology is ahead of both legislation and business concerns, such as insurance. It is also generally agreed that short, local ‘point A to point B’ routes will emerge more quickly; while true autonomy on large oceangoing internatio
this new police course. colonel oliver north is streaming live from mogadishu, somalia. colonel. it s grit to be with you from a place where there is very little good news. famine, drought, the butcher by terrorists, the pirates that have seized hundreds of sea machine and held them for ransom. there is some good news. take a look at some of what we ve been able to see in somalia. here in somalia there are very few success stories. but one of them is to put a police force in the air, on the ground and in the sea. he we re at a small air base in the gulf of somalia, in the gulf of aiden behind them. we are accompanying the p u.n.