University at Buffalo (UB)
Published May 12, 2020
A story in Buffalo Rising profiled Buffalo Automation, a local company developing automated water taxis, or self-driving boats, mentions that the company’s leadership team first came together at UB.
The story interviews co-founder Thiru Vikram, who says that all of the other “spaces” in the self-driving vehicle market were occupied, but it looked as if the AI technology for boats was still a relatively untapped frontier.
“We’re a Buffalo company, and this is where our heart is,” says Vikram. “We have no intention of leaving, we just had no idea that there was a bustling waterfront scene here. That’s why we never considered Buffalo as a city to launch our first water taxi – we always thought it would be a city with a large port.”