Lack of Scalable Hardware and Software Blocked Navy Mass Drone Adoption
Dino Mavrucas · This AI Sea Drone Could Destroy A Submarine? · Joe Lonsdale · Sep 12, 2024 · at 27:36
Saronic Technologies CEO Dino Mavrucas discusses the technical and manufacturing hurdles that prevented the U.S. Navy from deploying large autonomous swarms.
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“The biggest problem, well, the biggest problem that they were facing was reliability and scalability. So you can't adopt thousands of platforms if you can't get thousands of platforms. So it's building that reliability and scalability, not just in the hardware, but in the software so you can actually control them at that scale when you have them.”
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