southernocean.ai
#Southern Ocean AI | Artificial Intelligence for Southern Ocean
#picknik.ai | Remote Robot Control
#Alan Turing Institute | Developing digital twin of Antarctica | Identified icebergs using AI algoritms on satellite images
#British Antarctic Survey (BAS) AI Lab | Iceberg-detection using AI algoritms on SAR satellite images of polar oceans
#Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) | Investing in environmental science
#SEA.AI | Detecting floating objects early | Using thermal and optical cameras to catch also objects escaping conventional systems such as Radar or AIS: Unsignalled crafts or other floating obstacles, e.g., containers, tree trunks, buoys, inflatables, kayaks, persons over board | System computes input from lowlight and thermal cameras, using Machine Vision technology, deep learning capabilities and proprietary database of millions of annotated marine objects | High-resolution lowlight and thermal cameras | Real-time learning of water surface patterns | Searching for anomalies | Distinguishing water from non-water | Comparing anomalies with neural network | Recognize objects by matching combination of filters | Augmented reality video stream combined with map view | Intelligent alarming based on threat level | Detecting persons in water | On-board cameras with integrated image processing | Providing digital understanding of vessel surroundings on water | SEA.AI App on smartphone or tablet
#Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) | Listings | Markets | Technology | Data | Securities
#SubcImaging | Cameras | Lights | Systems | Software | Lasers
#uWare Robotics | Autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs)
#Sea Machines | Artificial Intelligence Recognition and Identification System | Detects, tracks, classifies and geolocates objects, vessel traffic and other potential obstacles
#Advanced Navigation | AI-based marine navigation systems | AI-Based underwater navigation solutions and robotics technology | Hydrography | Underwater acoustic positioning solutions | Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) | Inertial navigation systems (INS) | Sidney, Australia
#Ommatidia Lidar | Ocean observation | 3D Light Sensor | In-orbit characterization of large deployable reflectors (LDRs) | Channels: 128 parallel | Imaging vibrometry functionality | Target accuracy: 10µm | Measurement range: 0.5-20 m | Measurement accuracy (MPE): 20 + 6 μ/m | Angular range 30 x 360 | Vibrometry sampling frequenvy: 40 kHz | Vibrometry max in-band velocity: 15.5 mm/s | Power consumption: 45W | Battery operation time: 240 min | Interface: Ethernet | Format: CSV / VKT / STL / PLY / TXT | Dimension: 150x228x382 mm | Weight: 7,5 kg | Pointer: ~633 nm | Temperature range: 0/40 ºC | Environmental protection class: IP54 | Eye safety: Class 1M | Raw point clouds: over 1 million points | Calibration: metrology-grade with compensation of thermal and atmospheric effects | ESA
#Heliogen | Decarbonizing industry with concentrated sunlight
#Ross Sea Regional Working Group (REG) | Assisting delivery of coordinated and standardised observations of essential variables in Ross Sea
#Southern Ocean Observing System (SOOS) | Facilitating and Enhancing Global Southern Ocean Observations
#Portland State University | Primary Productivity in the Indian Sector of the Southern Ocean: Observations from Three Austral Summers
#University of Tasmania | Multidisciplinary Investigation of the Southern Ocean
#LookOut | AI vision system | Synthesized data from charts, AIS, computer vision, and cloud fusing it into one 3D augmented reality view | Connects to existing boat display | Mountable camera system to the top of any boat | Lookout App for laptop, phone or tablet | Infrared vision | Night vision sensor | Spotting small vessels, floating debris, buoys, people in water | Blind spot detection | Backup camera | Temperature breaks, bird cluster locations, underwater structures for anglers | Camera streaming over WiFi to phones and tablets on the boat | Over-the-air (OTA) updates | Marine-grade water-proof enclosure | Integrated with satellite compass | National Marine Electronics Association (NMEA) communication standard interface | Multifunction Display (MFD) | Multi-core CPU driving augmented reality compute stack | ClearCloud service | NVIDIA RTX GPU for real-time computer vision | DockWa app
#SiLC | Machine Vision solutions with FMCW LiDAR vision | FMCW at the 1550nm wavelength | Eyeonic Vision Sensor platform | Detecting vehicles and various obstacles from long distances | Honda Xcelerator Ventures | Honda Marine
#National Technical University of Athens | MariNeXt deep-learning framework detecting and identifying marine pollution | Sentinel-2 imagery | Detecting marine debris and oil spills on sea surface | Automated data collection and analysis across large spatial and temporal scales | Deep learning framework | Data augmentation techniques | Multi-scale convolutional attention network | Marine Debris and Oil Spill (MADOS) dataset | cuDNN-accelerated PyTorch framework | NVIDIA RTX A5000 GPUs | NVIDIA Academic Hardware Grant Program | AI framework produced promising predictive maps | Shortcomings: unbalanced dataset, marine water and oil spills are abundant, foam and natural organic material are less represented
#Yamaha Marine | 450 hp hydrogen-powered V-8 outboard | Three 6-foot-long cylindrical-shaped hydrogen fuel tanks | H2 machine operates by using hydrogen in its combustion chambers | H2 tanks are positioned low and centrally to enhance stability | H2 tanks size demands rethinking of future boat designs, hulls specifically tailored for hydrogen storage | Hydrogen storage system adds considerable weight to vessel | Volumetric energy density of hydrogen is lower, requiring larger tanks | Partners: Roush Performance, Regulator Marine
#Feadship | Hydrogen-cell superyacht | Double-walled cryogenic tank in dedicated room | 4 tons of hydrogen | Cruising protected marine zones.| Cryogenic storage of liquefied hydrogen in superyacht interior | No regulations for hydrogen storage and fuel-cell systems on superyacht
#Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC-5) | Developing international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution | Raising awareness about the serious impacts of plastic pollution on both humans and nature | Global bans and phase-outs of the most harmful and problematic plastic products and chemicals | Global product design requirements to ensure all plastic produced is safe to reuse and recycle as part of global non-toxic circular economy
#Tampere University | Pneumatic touchpad | Soft touchpad sensing force, area and location of contact without electricity | Device utilises pneumatic channels | Can be used in environments such as MRI machines | Soft robots | Rehabilitation aids | Touchpad does not need electricity | It uses pneumatic channels embedded in the device for detection | Made entirely of soft silicone | 32 channels that adapt to touch | Precise enough to recognise handwritten letters | Recognizes multiple simultaneous touches | Ideal for use in devices such as MRI machines | If cancer tumours are found during MRI scan, pneumatic robot can take biopsy while patient is being scanned | Pneumatic device can be used in strong radiation or conditions where even small spark of electricity would cause serious hazard
#BrainChip | Akida Pico | Ultra-low power acceleration co-processor | Enabling development of uber-compact, intelligent devices | Akida2 event-based computing platform | Ultra-low-power (less than a milliwatt) neural processing unit (NPU) | AI accelerator for battery powered, compact intelligent devices (hearing aids, noise-cancelling earbuds, medical equipment) | Event-based co-processor | Intended for voice wake detection, keyword spotting, speech noise reduction, audio enhancement, presence detection, personal voice assistant, automatic doorbell, wearable AI and appliance voice interfaces | Supports power islands for minimal standby power
#Allen Institute for Artifical Intelligence | AI for the Environment | Robot planning precise action points to perform tasks accurately and reliably | Vision Language Model (VLM) controlling robot behavior | Introducing automatic synthetic data generation pipeline | Instruction-tuning VLM to robotic domains and needs | Predicting image keypoint affordances given language instructions | RGB image rendered from procedurally generated 3D scene | Computing spatial relations from camera perspective | Generating affordances by sampling points within object masks and object-surface intersections | Instruction-point pairs fine-tune language model | RoboPoint predicts 2D action points from image and instruction, which are projected into 3D using depth map | Robot navigates to these 3D targets with motion planner | Combining object and space reference data with VQA and object detection data | Leveraging spatial reasoning, object detection, and affordance prediction from diverse sources | Enabling to generalize combinatorially.| Synthetic dataset used to teach RoboPoint relational object reference and free space reference | Red and ground boxes as visual prompts to indicate reference objects | Cyan dots as visualized ground truth | NVIDIA | | Universidad Catolica San Pablo | University of Washington
#Australian Antarctic Program Partnership, University of Tasmania | Study of algal growth in Antarctic fast ice | Annual amount of carbon produced by algae living in landfast sea ice around Antarctica.calculated
#Submarinecablemap.com | Submarine Cable Map
#VORAGO | Radiation hardened and radiation tolerant microcontrollers and microprocessors | High-volume manufacturing to harden commercially designed semiconductor component | Empowers mission success | Radiation-hardened ICs that excel in extreme environments | ARM | Texas Instruments | Brainchip | Custom hardware and firmware solutions tailored to withstand extreme environments | Ensuring that mission-critical components remain resilient | Custom solutions, armed with space-grade electronics and an ARM Cortex microcontrollers | International Space Station: dies measuring the effects of protons and cosmic rays | Satelites: devices utilized in Department of Defense Space Test Program (STP) missions | CubeSats: ARM microvontroller | Semiconductor components and solutions for extreme temperature environments up to +200°C
#Thinking Machines Lab | thinkingmachines.ai | Building artificial intelligence models and products | Competing on high end of large language models | Human-AI collaboration | Building AI that can adapt to full spectrum of human expertise | Multimodal systems that work with people collaboratively | AI models that can work across text, audio, video | AI models designed to excel in science and programming | Publishing technical blog posts, papers, program code | Mira Murati: CEO | John Schulman: Chief Scientist | Barret Zoph: CTO | Alexander Kirillov: Multimodal Research Head | John Lachman: Head of Special Projects | Alex Gartrell: Linux kernel, networking, and containerization | Andrew Tulloch: ML systems research and engineering | Brydon Eastman: Human and synthetic data, model alignment and RL | Christian Gibson: Supercomputers used in training frontier models | Devendra Chaplot: VLMs, RL, & Robotics | Ian O Connell: Infrastructure engineering | Jacob Menick: ML researcher | Joshua Gross: Products and research | Kurt Shuster: Reasoning | Kyle Luther: ML researcher | Lilian Weng: Research | Luke Metz: Research scientist and engineer | Mario Saltarelli: IT and Security leader | Myle Ott: AI researcher | Nikki Sommer: HRBP | Noah Shpak: ML Engineer, GPUs | Pia Santos: Executive Operations Leader | Randall Lin: Algorithms | Rowan Zellers: Realtime multimodal posttraining | Sam Schoenholz: Scaling, optimization | Sam Shleifer: Inference | Stephen Chen: Infrastructure engineer | Stephen Roller: Full-stack pre-training | Yinghai Lu: ML system engineer
#Skyhawk | Wireless Vessel Monitoring System | 915 MHz RF tech | Verizon IoT, | Over-the-air updates | Wake-on-radio receiver technology | Decentralized architecture | Any Oversea hub can detect RF communications from any Oversea sensor | Communications relayed via cellular modem to Skyhawk servers.| Each sensor and hub designed to operate for years on single set of AA batteries | Oversea app and airtime subscription required
#Lockheed Martin | Integrated AI | Intelligence analysis | Real-time decision-making | Predictive aerospace maintenance | Optimized engineering designs | Customized large language models (LLMs) | Lockheed Martin AI Factory | Trustworthy and secure AI deployment | Both open-source and proprietary AI models | Google Cloud Vertex AI platform
#NVidia | Dexterous robot development | Manipulating objects with precision, adaptability, and efficiency | Fine motor control, coordination, ability to handle a wide range of tasks, often in unstructured environments | Key aspects of robot dexterity include grip, manipulation, tactile sensitivity, agility, and coordination | Robot dexterity development for manufacturing, healthcare, logistics | Dexterity enabling automation in tasks that traditionally require human-like precision
#e-con Systems | Camera solutions for NVIDIA platforms | Full HD Global Shutter Camera for Jetson AGX Orin | Jetson AGX Orin: 64GB module, 275 TOPS with power configurable 15W and 60W | Multiple 4k ultra-lowlight camera for NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin | Global shutter | Rolling shutter | Autofocus and fixed focus | High resolution and frame rate | High dynamic range | High sensitivity in both visible and NIR regions | Superior color reproduction | MIPI and GMSL2 interfaces | Camera SDK configured to support Isaac SDK | Multi-camera support | NVIDIA Isaac GEMs ROS: GPU-accelerated packages for ROS2 application | Isaac ROS GEMs help to assess camera position with regard to its starting point | Isaac ROS GEMs empower robotic applications to maneuver and navigate through complicated environments | Installing ROS 2 requires Ubuntu 20.04 | Board cameras | USB 3.0 cameras | Autonomous mobile robots, autonomous shopping
#Antarctica2030 | Uniting leaders from sport, politics, business, media, and science to champion Antarctica Southern Ocean protection | Southern Ocean Coalition (ASOC) | Pew Charitable Trusts | Oceans 5
#Fincantieri | Polar research vessel manufacturing
#Biral | Sensors for Antarctic Climate Change Research | Bristol Industrial & Research Associates Ltd | Unit 8 Harbour Road Trading Estate, Portishead, Bristol BS20 7BL UK
#ICEYE | Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) | Maritime monitoring
#Ocean Infinity | Robotic ships | Smaller uncrewed vessels | Underwater robotics
#Blue Atlas Robotics | Manufactures subsea inspection robots and provides marine survey solutions
#Avikus | Autonomous navigation solutions for vessels
#Robotics Engineering | Intelligent Sensing for Object Recognition, Manipulation and Control | Design, Development and Simulation Tools for Robotics Development | Developing Intelligent Robots - Machine Learning on Edge, Cloud and Hybrid Architectures | Advanced Motion Control Solutions for Robotics Systems | Intelligent Vision and Sensing Solutions for Autonomous Mapping and Navigation | Motion Control for Healthcare Robotics Applications: Functional Requirements, Critical Capabilities
#Howell Marine Consulting (HMC) | Blue economy planning and strategy | Offshore energy | Natural capital | Ocean climate | Fisheries management | Equitable transitions | Clients: Defra, Crown Estate, Natural England, Marine Management Organisation, UNEP, UNDP, World Bank, NERC, Welsh Government, Scottish Government, UNESCO IOC, Offshore Wind Industry Council | Delivering marine science into operational decision making
#OndoSense | Radar distance sensor | Sensor software: integrated into control system or used for independent quality monitoring | Object detection | Distance measurement | Position control | Agriculture: reliable height control of the field sprayer | Mining industry | Transport & Logistics | Shipping & Offshore | Mechanical and plant engineering | Metal and steel industry | Energy sector | Harsh industrial environments | Dust & smoke: no influence | Rain & snow: no influence | Radar frequency: 122GHz | Opening angle: ±3° | Measuring range: 0.3 – 40 m | Measuring rate: up to 100Hz | Output rate: up to 10 ms / 100 Hz | Measurement accuracy; up to ±1mm | Measurement precision: ±1mm | Communication protocol: RS485; Profinet, other interfaces via gateway | Switching output: 3x push-pull (PNP/NPN) | Analogue output: Current interface (4 – 20 mA) | Protection class: IP67
#Aker Arctic Technology | Designing and Engineering reliable and efficient ships operating in ice-covered waters | Polar research vessels | Complete development process of a new ship design | Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) analysis (numerical analysis and algorithms to analyze and solve problems involving fluid flows) | Finite Element Method (FEM) analysis for ship structures | Ship propulsion systems | Winterization specifications and solutions
#Australian Antarctic Program | University of Tasmania | CSIRO | Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies | Bureau of Meteorology, Australian Antarctic Division | Geoscience Australia | Integrated Marine Observing System | Million year ice core project | Tasmanian Government
#HEBI Robotics | Robot development platform | Smart robotic actuation hardware and building blocks | Streamlininh the process of developing robots | Space-rated hardware deployed for missions in space | NASA: SBIR
#Securing Antarctica Environmental Future (SAEF) | Funded by Australian Research Council | Developed autonomous year-round monitoring platform to measure and analyze moss health | Artificial Intelligence of Things Platform (AIoT Platform) | NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano | Sensors collect and analyze moss canopy and air temperature, relative humidity, soil moisture and heat flux, solar radiation, and imagery | AIoT Platform transmits only results
#Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS) | Biological and physical drivers of iron and carbon cycles in Antarctic sea ice | Understanding central role of Antarctica and Southern Ocean in global climate system and implications for marine ecosystems
#OpenSpace | openspace.ai | OpenSpace Spatial AI engine maps photos to plans automatically | As-built record of the building from preconstruction to handover and operation | Stay on top of progress | Verify work-in-place | Improve coordination | Reduce risk | AI automatically calculates progress of specific construction activities | Verify work completed for payment applications and better scheduling | Machine learning and computer vision to recognize, track, and quantify work-in-place | Heatmaps on floor plan | Progress Chart plots quantity installed over time | Live dashboards | Export OpenSpace Track progress data
#Cerebras | AI inference and training platform | Specialized AI chips | Wafer-scale engine (WSE) | 900,000 cores deliver high levels of parallelism required to train large-scale models faster and more efficiently | On-chip memory integration provides high-bandwidth access to data | Processing speeds exceeding 2,500 tokens per second | Real-time processing capabilities for autonomous systems, vehicles, devices
#SubC Imaging | Integrated cameras, software, and remote solutions for deep-sea research
#Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace (KDA) | Surveillance of vessels in the Arctic Regions of Norway (NAVAREA XIX) | Investing to space industry
#Norwegian Institute of Marine Research | Arctic Sea research
#UK Marine Biological Association | Marine heat waves research
#Seakit International | MaxLimer | Uncrewed surface vessel
#Argo | Collecting information from inside the ocean using a fleet of robotic instruments that drift with the ocean currents and move up and down between the surface and a mid water level | Floats (instruments) spend almost all their life below the surface | Observing ocean data related to climate change
#Simrad | Marine Chartplotters | Autopilots | Radar | Beam sharpening technology | ZoneTrack | Halo Dangerous Target Alerts | Bird+ Mode
#Untether AI | Accelerating AI inference | PCI-Express form factor and power envelope | Over 2 PetaOps per card | Accelerator card | AI chip | Intel backef | Toronto, Canada
#Wartsila | Marine autonomy solutions
#Orca AI | FleetView for fleet operators and management | SeaPod | Artificial intelligence-based maritime navigation assistant, watchkeeper | Automated object detection and prioritization | All marine object detection | Curbing marine mammal strikes | Reducing whale mortality rates
#Field AI | Autonomous systems for machines deployed to fields | Off-road autonomy