A Bay Area company has developed Saildrone, an autonomous ocean-going drone designed for patrolling and protecting shipping lanes. The Saildrone features an aerodynamic tail and multiple sensors, allowing it to navigate rough seas independently. It operates without a human crew and utilizes sophisticated mapping software and AI for navigation and monitoring. As demand for this technology rises, the Armed Forces of Denmark are currently testing it in the Baltic Sea amid current geopolitical tensions, highlighting its growing importance for maritime surveillance.
The vehicle is fully autonomous. We set it, kind of a routing, a waypoint, basically give it an area in which it can operate and then it autonomously decides where to go and how to get there. We've got 20 different sensors per vehicle. There's ranges from radars to cameras, optical, infrared, acoustics, RF. And we have an onboard ML, AI running on GPU compute.
Demand for the technology is growing. The Armed Forces of Denmark are now testing the Saildrone in the Baltic Sea. Tensions are rising in the area, with several undersea communication cables cut in recent incidents being blamed, by some, on Russia.
The aerodynamic tail controls the angle, the wing wheels of the boat -- they're to sail in any direction relative to the wind.
What we have is eyes and ears on the ocean 24/7.
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