SEA.AI and Anschütz Partner to Integrate Machine Vision into Autonomics Navigation Suite

24 August 2026
Edited By: Haley McQueen

SEA.AI and Anschütz have agreed on a partnership to integrate SEA.AI's vision into the Autonomics Navigation Suite, adding understanding of what radar and AIS cannot see. Both companies will meet the press and partners at SMM 2026 in Hamburg, September 1–4.

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SEA.AI and Anschütz have formed a partnership combining SEA.AI’s machine vision with Anschütz’s navigation systems expertise. The companies plan to integrate SEA.AI’s technology into the Autonomics Navigation Suite for bridge systems, with design and validation work beginning immediately.

The Autonomics Navigation Suite is designed to provide components for autonomous navigation and navigation assistance systems in line with the new MASS code.

A key component is situational awareness, considering targets, depths, and charted objects, within which COLREG-based collision and grounding avoidance trajectories can be safely planned and executed.

SEA.AI’s contribution is more than a camera feed. Its AI identifies and classifies what the optical and thermal sensors see: a vessel, a buoy, floating debris, or a person in the water, for example.

Radar, ENC, and AIS remain the backbone of collision avoidance, and neither sees everything. Radar can miss small, low, or debris-sized targets, particularly amid clutter or at close range. Buoys can be adrift with regard to their charted positions, and AIS only reports vessels equipped with an active transponder.

SEA.AI’s optical detection technology classifies what a human lookout would see, day or night. The partners plan to add this capability to Autonomics as another sensor track, enhancing the situational picture.

Consider a ferry crossing a crowded strait at night while an unlit fishing boat sits close to its track. Small vessels are often difficult for radar to hold reliably and may not be fitted with AIS. By also integrating SEA.AI’s classified targets, Autonomics can take the fishing boat automatically into account, detect the risk early, and propose a COLREG-compliant course change for confirmation by the officer on watch.

For more than a century, Anschütz has been a leader in the field of navigation, integrating electronic charts, radar, navigation sensors, and other systems to provide a consistent situational picture on the bridge. With its trusted sensor technology, its autopilot systems, and the Autonomics Navigation Suite, Anschütz is pioneering autonomous and highly automated navigation.

Since 2018, SEA.AI has added another sensor layer, closing the situational-awareness gap with machine vision developed for maritime safety. Together, they pair Anschütz’s proven authority on the bridge with SEA.AI’s detection of what today’s sensor systems might not otherwise see.