SeaAhead

2023年1月21日

得到它!得到它!在空中係統公司使用垂直帆從高空係統來推動船一樣容易裝載貨物。和管理與人工智能魚從Radmantis可以徹底改變水產養殖行業。這些都是短球從兩個公司的最新BlueSwell孵化器項目的波士頓,馬薩諸塞州。他們的例子程序的第三批6個創業公司選擇和支持的人SeaAhead inc .)和新英格蘭水族館。高空係統英裏Keeney-Ritchie(左)和書包道格拉斯,右,在空中係統的聯合創始人大衛李/快板照片”我們一直在推動船隻使用風的帆幾千年的海洋,“Keeney-Ritchie說。“在某些方麵,我們有被蒸汽船和柴油船……過去40年的進步天氣預報和過去20年自動化和製造業,我們可以把這些進步和應用他們回到這個古老的技術。“高空剛性風的帆像飛機機翼和產生推力的船一樣,飛機產生升力,Keeney-Ritchie解釋道。單位是設計成模塊化,因此用戶可以安裝多達他們想幫助移動他們的船。 “The modular sail is on a skid that’s the size of a large shipping container ... The goal is to take advantage of port infrastructure” for loading the units. MORE FOR YOU The sails operate autonomously. When there’s enough wind, they deploy and adjust to help push a ship along. If wind conditions deteriorate, the sails stow themselves. “The only thing you need to tell it is which direction is forward,” the cofounder says. “Essentially, they are a little auxiliary engines that assist in propelling the vessel and any amount of energy we extract from the wind just reduces the amount of fuel you burn.” Another rendering of the Aloft system, with two sails per unit. Aloft Systems Inc. For every one unit extracted from wind and converted into thrust, 1.7 units of energy is saved, Keeney-Ritchie says. For a medium-sized, 150-foot-long survey vessel, for example, two of the startup’s units can save 6% in fuel. That may not sound like much, but vessels can burn 1,000 gallons of diesel per day and those savings would add up quickly, he says. Right now, Aloft Systems is building a quarter-scale prototype. The next step would be a full-scale, shipping container-sized pilot unit: 53-feet long, 8 feet wide and 9 feet tall. Radmantis Robert Huber is cofounder of Radmantis , based in Toledo, Ohio. The startup is focused on helping aquaculture meet the need for animal protein on a planet that recently surpassed 8 billion people . “We can’t satisfy that rising demand by terrestrial animal farming. We have to rely more on seafood ... “That heavy lifting has to come from aquaculture. We really have to grow more and catch less.” Radmantis cofounder Robert Huber working on electronics research and development at the MassRobotics ... [+] facility in Boston. Radmantis But modern aquaculture is dependent on manual technology: people who have to handle and manage fish, which stresses fish out and can make fish more vulnerable to disease. Enter precision aquaculture, using artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance fish management, paired with robotics. Huber showed off video of a gating mechanism during an interview. “We need some way of visually assessing what’s going on (in an aquaculture operation),” Huber says. “... Whatever we can actually see with our naked eyes, AI is going to be 10 times better in recognizing those.” Examples include monitoring fish sizes to sort those that are feeding well and those that need to eat more, and looking for signs of diseases and parasites. “We can route them toward different fates,” Huber says. Radmantis built an aquaculture system south of Toledo and conducted testing about a half and a half ago. The company is just now starting validation work at a full-scale facility in Upstate New York. “This is really going to be our step into prime time.” Post-BlueSwell Plans Selected BlueSwell startups receive $50,000 and are enrolled in a 20-week curriculum, also receiving guidance from SeaAhead and the aquarium, an extended network of advisers and coworking at the Cambridge Innovation Center. What does the future hold for cohort No. 3? For starters, Aloft would like to target vessels doing surveys for offshore wind construction. “Our grand vision is to decarbonize or help decarbonize the worldwide fleet and to do that at some point we need to move to permanent installations,” Keeney-Ritchie says. Huber sees many other uses for Radmantis products , including invasive species control and preventing fish mortality at water intakes. “I'm really excited about the solutions that we came up with and I would like nothing more than be able to share what we’re doing with folks who share our excitement about it and solve some real problems,” he said.