Buffalo Automation is an autonomous navigation technology startup that provides embedded software systems for commercial vessels, recreational boats, ferries, and ports to improve safety and enable autonomous navigation.
Our AutoMate product is used in:
Boats: A comprehensive navigation package for boats that provides fully autonomous and COLREGS compliant collision avoidance and automatic docking in addition to traditional marine autopilot functionality, such as GPS waypoint following. Boaters can relax and enjoy the ride while AutoMate autonomously navigates, docks and anchors for them. AutoMate is designed to be a singularly comprehensive and affordable replacement for the expensively eclectic mix of various displays, chartplotters and navigation devices used today, providing a bespoke and ergonomic console experience instead.
Drones: AutoMate is offered with teleoperation and remote monitoring capabilities as add-on options, which work with either an onboard mobile control station, an onshore remote console, or both.
Ferries: Autonomous electric ferries that are solar-powered and equipped with the most advanced version of AutoMate, which enables fully autonomous and uncrewed operation as an urban water taxi or as a bareboat charter vessel for those who do not want to own or operate a boat.
ASVs: Modular Autonomous Surface Vessels that can be dismantled, customized, and reassembled on demand at the deployment site, offering a versatile multi-role option as a civilian transportation, remote logistics, and commercial survey vessel or as a coastal patrol, naval ISR, and amphibious landing tender.
USVs: Autonomous Uncrewed Surface Vessels offering a more versatile, storable, repairable, transportable, and dual-use option for commercial survey or military uses, such as ISR, patrol, loitering munitions, and mine clearance.
Ships: An advanced sensor system that leverages our artificial intelligence to provide maritime situational awareness and navigation decision support for commercial ships. AutoMate is an automated lookout that assists with docking and provides a highly accurate real-time draft measurement. AutoMate is a turnkey aftermarket retrofit solution for commercial vessel operators who want to increase safety, optimize cargo loading, and free up crews to focus on more critical tasks.
Please email us at contact@buffaloautomation.ai to purchase AutoMate, available in four versions:
Research Initiatives:
Buffalo Automation prides itself on a culture of innovation, which is reinforced by our use of the Pareto principle to explore out-of-the-box use cases for our core technology. The following are some initiatives that we use 20% of our time to experiment and learn from:
Mayday: Mobile app that hosts an offline version of our image recognition AI for the public to experiment with.
Raven: Project to see how our technology applies to automotive and vice versa.
BiFrost: Project to see how our thermal analytics technologies can help fight pandemics.