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Ganesh: Saronic autonomous vessels have recorded accelerations north of 20 Gs
“So a good example of this is like, I think a lot of commercial boats, like you kind of target the human beings to like, take like .4 to .6 G's maybe you know, our boats like We've seen accelerations north of 20 G's before.”
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Ganesh: AI tooling accelerates robotics software, shifting hardware testing upfront
“Today with AI tooling, like, you can write code a lot faster, but that also means, like, your debug cycles are a lot faster and so you spend a lot more time up front now, or it's prudent to spend a lot more time up front, you know, assembling all of your hardw…”
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Ganesh: Saronic bench-tested Marauder's propulsion stack months before ship construction
“And so for Marauder, for example, our 180 foot ship we built all of the internal kind of genset, propulsion stack, bow thruster, all of those components of the ship just in a room before, like probably eight months before the ship was built.”
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Ganesh: Designing boats without human accommodations reduces manufacturing complexity
“The nice and kind of magical part about building autonomous boats is that all boats historically have been built for humans. And so when you actually, you know, thoughtfully choose to design hardware and software together, you actually get to reduce a lot of t…”
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Ganesh: Maritime autonomy lacks open data due to regulation and military classification
“Autonomous boats haven't been, you know, blessed with the legal approval from necessary from DHS and whatnot. You still have manning requirements on autonomous boats so that you haven't had the economic push. And then on the other side a lot of the things, as …”
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Ganesh: Fully unmanned fleets of Marauder-scale vessels have never been deployed
“Getting to the point where you have You know, a fleet of these that are completely unmanned just never been done before.”
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Ganesh: Open-source AI will democratize tooling and drive hardware capex buildouts
“I'm excited about the wave of open source AI. I think it'll, it'll democratize a lot of the tooling, the resources, I think we'll continue to see the proliferation on, on the hardware side and the capex build outs there. And I think the exciting part to, I thi…”
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Ganesh: Heavy sea states degrade antenna RF signals like natural jamming
“If you are in you know, heavy sea state, like, and you're taking, and like, water's falling on your antennas and whatnot, you will already see that kind of, the ocean's trying to jam you, basically. You'll see a quality service drop, you'll, you'll see drop pa…”
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Ganesh: Saronic's open APIs allow operators to program custom comms-loss behaviors
“You can go and use our platform to with the open APIs that we have, like you can go and design a mission as per your specification. So you can go and say, if I do lose comms, like I want to keep going. Great. If I lose comms for X amount of time then I want to…”
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Ganesh: Mass vessel volume fundamentally changes operational behavior versus prototypes
“The volume actually changes the core fundamentals of how that system get used. If you only have one, you're like babying it the whole time, but when you have hundreds, there's all sorts of interesting things that you can do.”
