University at Buffalo (UB)
Published April 10, 2018 This content is archived.
An article in Business First reports Buffalo Automation has received $900,000 in seed funding to expand pilot tests of its AutoMate system, a high-tech platform that helps steer self-driving ships around specific obstacles and directly to long-term destinations even during the night.
The company was co-founded by Thiru Vikram and Alex Zhitelzeyf, who built out the initial technology as UB undergraduates under the guidance of Bina Ramamurthy, research associate professor of computer science and engineering in the UB School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.
Read the story here.