Mirai Robotics, Europe’s newest dual-use startup building autonomous and intelligent systems for maritime operations, has a big ambition. It wants to build a European center of excellence for maritime autonomy in Italy, a country that has historically been a global leader in shipbuilding.
“We see maritime autonomy today like aviation and the automobile industry at the beginning of the 20th century: a foundational technological transition that will create an entirely new industrial ecosystem,” says CEO and co-founder Luciano Belviso.
Mirai, which this week raised a pre-seed funding round of $4.2 million and focuses on the deep integration of autonomous vehicles, advanced sensing, artificial intelligence, and control systems, is approaching maritime autonomy as an engineering and industrial challenge — not just a software one, Belviso says.
Think of it as Physical AI for the sea.
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