Robot-boat startup HavocAI has built 42 autonomous vessels in 18 months. And now, as the military focuses on deterring China, the company is working to finish a 100-footer by the end of the year.

“We're going to take a 42 foot vessel that is built for the Pacific, and we're going to make it autonomous…and collaborate with the Rampages [HavocAI’s small USVs] to do missions. And by the end of 2025 we'll put [a] 100-foot USB into the water,” Paul Lwin, HavocAI’s CEO and co-founder, told Defense One .

Thirty-two of Havoc AI’s robot boats are already with DOD customers across the globe—in Europe, the U.S. east and west coasts, and in Hawaii. The company is building a 38-foot vessel and, thanks to a new deal with PacMar Technologies , is planning to build a 42-foot autonomous vessel

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