SEA.AI, Anschütz to Integrate Machine Vision into Autonomics Navigation Suite

SEA.AI and Anschütz have agreed a partnership to integrate SEA.AI's vision into the Autonomics Navigation Suite, adding understanding of what radar and AIS cannot see. The companies plan to integrate SEA.AI’s technology into the Autonomics Navigation Suite for bridge systems, with design and validation work beginning immediately. 

The Autonomics Navigation Suite is designed to provide components for autonomous navigation and navigation assistance systems in line with the new MASS code. A key component is situational awareness, considering targets, depths and charted objects, within which COLREG-based collision and grounding avoidance trajectories can be safely planned and executed. SEA.AI's technology identifies and classifies what the optical and thermal sensors see: a vessel, a buoy, floating debris, or a person in the water, for example.  

Radar, ENC and AIS remain the backbone of collision avoidance, and neither sees everything. Radar can miss small, low, or debris-sized targets, particularly amid clutter or at close range. Buoys can be adrift with regards to their charted positions and AIS only reports vessels equipped with an active transponder. 

Both companies will attend SMM 2026 in Hamburg, September 1-4, where their teams will be available for meetings, briefings and interviews about the partnership. SEA.AI will be at Stand B8.229 and Anschütz at Stand B6.304.