TEXT ON SCREEN: Self-driving boats.
The wave of the future?
[Catamaran on a peaceful lake]
TEXT: Buffalo Automation, a startup,
is developing this technology.
[Engineers working with a spinning device]
TEXT: Their focus is on AI.
That's artificial intelligence.
[Rotating device.]
TEXT: The company's system
is called AutoMate.
[A device with sensors
installed on a large ship.]
TEXT: They created it with help
from the University at Buffalo.
[Four people discussing content
on a white board.]
TEXT: It can "see"in pitch-black darkness.
[Words set on a black background.]
TEXT: Radar detects threats 24
nautical miles out.
[Radar display.]
TEXT: Thermal cameras and LIDAR spot
debris, boats and other dangers.
[Engineers working with two spinning
devices.]
TEXT: Neural networks help the system
understand what it sees.
[Hands connecting colorful cords.]
TEXT: Machine learning helps it adjust
to rough waters.
[Engineers writing on and
viewing a white board.]
TEXT: Automate can be installed on
existing vessels.
[A large ship.]
TEXT: The goal?
[A large ship, viewed through a camera that
pans from one side of the vessel to the other.]
TEXT: To prevent accidents and save lives.
[Boats in a harbor or port.]
TEXT: University at Buffalo, 
State University of New York.
buffalo.edu, #UBuffalo.
[Interlocking U B logo.]
