Blue Water Autonomy, which says it is building a 100-ton autonomous naval ship, emerges from stealth with a $14M seed from Eclipse VC, Riot, and Impatient
Our founders @rylanhamilton Scott @AustinEGray have led and scaled robotics companies from kitchen table to exit, developed hardware products from concept to factory, and spent years at sea. Our team is built of, by, and for true #builders.
⚓️Our mission - build an autonomous ship that can deliver capability the Navy has long sought - is not an easy one. But it is a mission that we embrace at a moment when democracy itself needs naval power. @USNavy supremacy is under threat.
The U.S. military is at a juncture where it needs much more than incremental improvements to maintain its status on the global stage. Autonomous ships are critical to enable the Navy to project power given the threat of China and Russia and the importance of shipping lanes in the
Could autonomous ships help the US regain its shipbuilding capacity? Blue Water Autonomy CEO Rylan Hamilton joins “Bloomberg Technology” https://www.bloomberg.com/... [video]