Driverless technology is making inroads in maritime shipping, search-and-rescue operations and security work. But it has been absent from recreational boating.
That is changing.
Buffalo Automation Group, a robotics startup founded by three University at Buffalo undergraduate engineering students, is developing technology to create autonmous boats similar to Google’s driverless cars. Since forming last year, the company has successfully tested its technology on a 16-foot catamaran, filed two provisional pate