Kenneth Jensen, Navier's CTO, demonstrates an electric boat with drone-inspired autopilot tech. The system auto-docks itself and holds position with a virtual anchor, using cameras and electric steering to maneuver like an airplane. No physical anchor needed, which matters on lakes like Tahoe where dropping one is illegal.
So this boat is like an airplane.
So this is the boat of the future. Come on in.
Stylish in here. We were joined for the cruise by Kenneth Jensen, Navier's Chief Technology Officer.
All my past experience has been doing autopilots for drones. So this boat is like an airplane. Like, the boats are filled with cameras, so when we want to do vision-based auto docking, everything's electric. Like, the steering actuators are electric. All of that makes it very easy to control from a computer. It lets us do things like, oh, you're sideways. You could turn in place. There's a virtual anchor right now. What's a virtual anchor? You're just hovering?
It stays in place. So in Tahoe, you cannot drop an anchor, right? But you can just put a virtual anchor and do your picnic and, you know, do your thing.
That is cool.
