SAN FRANCISCO \u2013 Ubotica Technologies, an Irish company focused on artificial intelligence for spacecraft, has raised $11 million to expand commercial sales of its maritime-intelligence platform.<\/p>\n
The platform, Live Maritime Intelligence (LMI), unveiled<\/a> in April is designed to help satellites analyze data and take action in orbit.<\/p>\n For many space operations, tasking is handled by people on the ground, Aubrey Dunne, Ubotica co-founder and chief technology officer, said in May at the SmallSat Europe conference in Amsterdam. \u201cIf we can automate this by processing directly on board, we can remove the human-in-the-loop bottleneck, we can remove the ground-in-the-loop bottleneck and build autonomous systems that are capable of generating higher value information and more information.\u201d<\/p>\n Act Venture Capital, Greencode Ventures and Atlantic Bridge provided funding for Ubotica\u2019s latest investment round. <\/p>\n \u201cNations can\u2019t afford to wait hours for imagery while a vessel goes dark over critical infrastructure,\u201d Andrew O\u2019Neill, Act Venture Capital principal, said in a statement. \u201cLive Maritime Intelligence proves what on-board intelligence is worth: it turns Earth Observation from a camera into a real-time sentinel, starting with Europe\u2019s waters.\u201d<\/p>\n With MLI, satellite constellations will be able to quickly detect threats \u201canywhere across vast ocean areas, creating both a strategic security capability and a compelling commercial opportunity,\u201d Terhi Vapola, Greencode Ventures managing partner and founder, said in a statement.<\/p>\n Ubotica AI applications have been deployed on more than 30 Earth-observation satellites, according to the news release. Working with NASA\u2019s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and U.K. startup Open Cosmos, Ubotica showed that a satellite could look ahead along its orbital path and analyze the results<\/a> before gathering imagery.<\/p>\n \u201cUbotica has spent years pioneering Orbital AI, and we have applied that knowledge to one of the hardest security challenges on Earth: protecting vast maritime zones and critical offshore infrastructure,\u201d Ubotica CEO Fintan Buckley said in a statement. \u201cLive Maritime Intelligence predicts where risk is emerging, tasks the right satellites and sensors, and delivers decision-grade intelligence in minutes, giving security teams the speed and efficiency they need to act. This investment allows us to bring LMI to market at scale.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tRelated<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN FRANCISCO \u2013 Ubotica Technologies, an Irish company focused on artificial intelligence for spacecraft, has raised $11 million…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83427,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[24,25,45154,700,8179,4711,45155],"class_list":["post-83426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ai","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-earth-observation","tag-europe","tag-fundraising","tag-sn","tag-ubotica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}