Meet the startup looking beyond self-driving cars to bring autonomy to the sea

A Boston-based startup wants to do for the commercial shipping industry what Tesla and other brands have done to the car, by retrofitting ships to give them autonomous technology. The startup is Sea Machines Robotics, which in September released its first product. The Sea Machines 300 is the company's autonomous control system that can be installed in work boats and which uses common vessel-based instruments along with proprietary algorithms. The product gives the boat it's deployed in a degree ...