A cutting-edge 'vision' system for boats - cutters and boats - was developed by Russian scientists. It can also be installed on water drones.

"Russian engineers have created technical vision for small-sized river and sea vessels, including unmanned ones, which can recognize objects at a distance of up to 700 meters in the path of the vessel in less than one second and construct a trajectory to avoid the obstacle. The technology is developed by the market participant "NTI Marinet", "RobBotCraft"", - they told about the development in the Fund for supporting NTI projects.

The system is a separate autonomous device. It classifies objects into dangerous (logs, shoals, nets) and not dangerous (birds, garbage), calculates evasion trajectories, warns with light and sound signals when dangerously close.

"The key thing in our development is the absence of the need for constant human control to monitor the water space and make decisions on the evasion trajectory from dangerous objects. Unlike other similar products in the global market, the cost of our development is five times lower when calculated for the market of small ships", - said the founder of the project, the head of LLC "RobBotCraft" Andrey Shapygin.

As noted, the cost of developing the 'technical vision' system was about 10 million rubles, and about 20 million rubles are needed to organize mass production.