Autonomous Ships HQ: Recent Episodes
Juraj Pavlica
Your window into the world of technological developments that are revolutionizing the shipping industry.
Roboat is an innovative autonomous platform that is disrupting urban logistics and mobility on water. The guests of this episode is Ynse Hendrik Deinema - the project leader of Roboat. Majority of large cities are located near waterways or seashore and they all got similar issues when it comes to moving people, cargo, waste and parcels. Moving part of the logistical chains from road to water makes a lot of sense from multiple perspectives. Not to mention new leisure possibilities, new business models, physical internet...
The guests of this episode is Mr. Mohamed Saad Ibn Seddik. He is the founder of blkSAIL - a maritime autonomy startup from Boston. Mohamed holds a PhD in marine autonomy and has a decade of intense experience under his belt in this innovative and fast developing field. He is also a visiting instructor at MIT.
During our talk he answers, among other things, the following questions:
- What does it mean for a ship to be autonomous and how does it work?
- Where and how is Artificial Intelligence used?
- What are some of the key missing pieces that are needed for a wider commercial adoption of maritime autonomy?
- What is blkSAIL offering to their clients?
- For what ships or boats is this technology applicable?
- How is are safety and redundancy concerns resolved?
Today's guest is one of the leading world experts in maritime law. His outstanding career led him from US Navy, Coast Guard JAG , Department of Justice to being senior claims executive for the Norwegian company Gard which the largest P&I club in the world. His in-depth knowledge of Maritime and International Law and its applications to novel technologies such as unmanned and autonomous vessels makes him a very special guest of ours. Meet Mr. Sean T. Pribyl!
If you are into maritime autonomy and you haven't heard of Mr Ørnulf Jan Rødseth then you are most likely doing something wrong. If you have, well, then good for you. Either way you should listen to this episode because he is one of the most world wide recognized experts in maritime autonomy. With more then 35 years of experience under his belt in the cutting-edge maritime projects, he has been involved in the area of maritime autonomy from its early beginnings.
At the moment, he is working at one of the most recognized European research institutes (Sintef) as a Senior Scientist. Through this role he is involved in Europe's biggest and most important maritime autonomy project called Autoship. He is also the founder and the managing director of the Norwegian Forum for Autonomous Ships and he is also maintaining the world's biggest LinkedIn group on this topic.
Guests of this episode are Mr John Townsend (VP Technology Policy) and Mr Dieter Gabriel (Marketing Manager EMEA) of Velodyne. It is a US company famous for their iconic lidars called pucks. Listen to this episode and discover the working principle of this sensor, what are current application in the maritime industry where their lidars are used and more.
The guest of this episode is Ms Ann-Sofie Pauwelyn. She is the project lead of the Smart Shipping program from De Vlaamse Waterweg nv. As a key infrastructural stakeholder for the Flemish inland waterways they are actively working on adopting the regulatory framework and supporting testing of novel technologies.
The guest of this episode is Mr Dor Raviv. He is the CTO and Co-Founder of Israeli startup company called Orca.ai. Dor's story is one of those in which innovative engineers with entrepreneurial DNA scratch their own ich and create an amazing company and product. Stay tuned and hear how two friends started a company, how they raised capital, what product did they put on the market and much more.
The guest of this episode is Mr David Woudenberg. He is the Lead Autonomous engineer and Technical Lead at Dutch company Shipping Technology. Listen to this episode and discover how a leading Dutch AI firm joined forces with an experienced maritime company and how together they are creating practical and future-proof technology for inland shipping.
The guest of this episode is Mr Vegard Evjen Hovstein. He is the founder and managing director of Norwegian high-tech company Maritime Robotics. Over the last 15 years they have built an impressive technology stack for unmanned vehicles. In this insightful interview we touched upon may interesting subjects - from the early beginnings in developing aerial drones to latest products and services that they offer.
In this episode I talked with Thiru Vikram, the CEO of Buffalo Automation Group. In 2014, while still being an undergraduate student, Thiru realized that most of attention and research emphasis was being put on autonomous cars. But not so much on autonomous vessels. Listen to the podcast and discover among other things how the Buffalo Automation Group evolved from an undergraduate research project to a venture capital funded company and many other interesting technical and other insights...
The guest of this episode is Mr Nick Lambert. The former Rear Admiral of British Royal Navy with more than 40 years of experience in the industry shares his valuable thoughts on blue economy, maritime data and much more.