Mirai Robotics

Autonomy and intelligence for the seas. We're building software-defined autonomous systems and AI platforms that unify vessels, sensing, and command at sea.

[Mirai Robotics @mirairobotic]

We have better maps of Mars than of our seafloor.

That’s where we stand today. And it becomes even more striking when you consider that over 90% of global trade depends on water. So does the data infrastructure running beneath it, and the energy resources we extract from it.

The blue economy underwrites more of modern life than most people realise. Yet, we have barely begun to tap into its vast, unexplored capacity.

At Mirai Robotics, we’re working to close that gap: between what we still don’t know and the potential of a domain that covers most of the Earth’s surface.

Our Co-Founder, Luca Mascaro, joined @insiderDLT to discuss the state of maritime autonomy today, what’s at stake for Europe’s sovereignty, and what it takes for autonomous systems to perceive, adapt and operate at sea.

Worth listening to in full! https://t.co/D5le4GhToe

[Mirai Robotics @mirairobotic]

The people we bring into Mirai today will shape our company as much as the technology we build.

That is why we believe recruiting is not a support function. It is one of the company’s most strategic capabilities.

We are looking for a Founding Talent Acquisition Manager to develop it from the ground up.

Someone who understands that hiring is not simply about finding the right skills, but the people who will raise the bar, define how we work and set the direction for the years ahead.

You will work directly with our founders to drive the hiring strategy, build our recruiting processes and position Mirai as one of Europe’s most exciting destinations for technical talent – before everyone else realises how special it is.

Excited to join? More info in the link below!

Apply now: https://t.co/eyLnoQ8cZc

📍 Bari | Full time | On-site

[Mirai Robotics @mirairobotic]

The unveiling of our first autonomous system made headlines.

And rightly so.

But a vessel is only one part of the equation.

Maritime autonomy is not about a single platform. It's about combining autonomous assets, navigation intelligence, and mission software into a system that can operate at scale.

The vessel may be the most visible part.

The ecosystem behind it is what makes it work. That's what we are building.

#MaritimeAutonomy #AutonomousSystems #DefenceTech #PhysicalAI #MiraiRobotics

[Mirai Robotics @mirairobotic]

Europe is looking for defense technology free of foreign patents. Yet, it won't find it in the old playbook.

La Repubblica asked us how we plan to compete with Europe's tech giants. Here's the answer: we don't play by their rules.

We're creating an ecosystem where every unit becomes a node, independently executing assigned tasks while interacting with a network of assets.

That's the logic behind our alliance with Aura M. Sea and sky, unified under one thesis: Europe needs its own distributed-intelligence player.

We're the ones building it.

Full article here: https://t.co/uKZUibli2l

#MaritimeAutonomy #PhysicalAI #DefenceTech #AutonomousSystems #MiraiRobotics

[Mirai Robotics @mirairobotic]

The war in Ukraine revealed the cost of waiting too long.

Cheap drones destroying million-dollar platforms. Decision cycles compressed from days to minutes. Fixed assets becoming liabilities overnight.

For years, strategists warned that autonomous systems would reshape the battlefield. They were right.

But being right was never the point.

The point was to deploy the technology before disruption made the case for it.

The maritime domain faces the same logic.
We can’t act before the next disruption makes the case for us.

#MaritimeAutonomy #AutonomousSystems #DefenceTech #PhysicalAI

[Mirai Robotics @mirairobotic]

A $750B industry running in the dark.

The ocean underpins global trade, energy, defence. All of it depends on hydrographic data —
the precise measurement of what lies beneath the surface.

Yet, most of that data is incomplete, outdated, or simply missing.

For centuries, the ocean resisted observation.
Today, automation can change the rules.

At UDT 2026 last April, the Royal Navy reported the results of a direct test they had run: one section mapped by a crewed vessel, the other by autonomous platforms.

The autonomous systems delivered IHO Order 1 data – the highest certification available – on time, straight into charts. They could not believe it and ran the test again. Same results.

Lower cost. Continuous operation. No crew at risk.
The gap between what we know about the ocean and what it demands of us is finally closing.

🔗 Article link here: https://t.co/qyqgGwXeNZ
#MaritimeAutonomy #Hydrography #PhysicalAI #OceanTech #DefenceTech

[Mirai Robotics @mirairobotic]

The ocean doesn’t give second chances.

When systems operate at sea, the challenge isn’t just making technology act - it’s enabling assets to coordinate, adapt, and remain effective as objectives evolve.

Last night at the AI Robotics Meetup in Milano, our co-founder Luca Mascaro shared how we orchestrate autonomous and semi-autonomous systems in complex environments: different assets, partial information, human authority, and operational intent all working together.

The future of robotics and multi-asset coordination isn’t isolated platforms. It’s mission management powered by autonomous capabilities👇

[Mirai Robotics @mirairobotic]

Corsair did not choose to save those soldiers, but we celebrated anyway.

Earlier this month, Saronic's Corsair — an unmanned U.S. Navy vessel — reached two American soldiers off Oman.

An undisputed advantage of physical AI: when conditions are dangerous, you send the machine to do the heroic act.

But look closer. The drone followed a route. A mission outlined by others.

Now change the question. What if it had to choose between rescuing an American and an Iranian soldier?

It's a hypothetical, but the problem behind it is not: deciding under uncertainty, with no operator and no time to ask, is the actual frontier of trusted autonomy.

Read the full article here➡️: https://t.co/VBZ4jAv0l0

#MaritimeAutonomy #PhysicalAI #AutonomousSystems #DefenceTech #MiraiRobotics

[Mirai Robotics @mirairobotic]

In March 2025, 130 ships a day passed through the Strait of Hormuz.

This March, only 6.

And here is the part no one wants to hear: none of it was unforeseeable.

The Strait has always been a single point of failure for the global economy. We chose to treat it as background.

The maritime domain is not peripheral infrastructure. It is the infrastructure.

The gap between how critical it is and how poorly we monitor, anticipate and protect it remains one of the most consequential unresolved problems in global security.

That gap is what @mirairobotic is built to close.

[Mirai Robotics @mirairobotic]

We did not choose the Mediterranean by accident.

20% of global maritime traffic. Subsea cables connecting three continents. Four naval forces operating simultaneously. Critical energy infrastructure. Almost entirely unmonitored in real time.

We are building the operating layer that closes that gap – from Puglia, at the water’s edge, where the problem is not theoretical.
📷 https://t.co/0L1bYOAmhh

#PhysicalAI #Maritime #MaritimeAutonomy #OceanTech

[Mirai Robotics @mirairobotic]

Maritime security doesn't get built overnight.

You need the best players, the sharpest minds, and the courage to work across boundaries that others treat as walls.

This is why we are proud to be part of the Maritime Security Hackathon organised by Fincantieri, alongside Talent Garden and Silicon Mountain. Two days at the intersection of naval, cyber, and digital technologies.

Applications open until June 5th.

Join the challenge ➡️ https://t.co/s3QoaAHO09

[Fincantieri @Fincantieri]

We are proud to announce the Maritime Security Hackathon, an initiative Fincantieri organized with Talent Garden and Silicon Mountain. Two days of intense teamwork, where innovation gets shaped by the exchange between industrial players, sector experts, and key stakeholders from the defense and security ecosystem, at the intersection of naval, cyber and digital technologies.

Maritime security is a shared challenge that requires courage and foresight to overcome. For this reason, we invite researchers, post-docs, startup founders, and technology enthusiasts to get on board and put their skills to power the future of security.

If you want to be part of the change, join us: applications are open until June 5th.

Get on board! 👉 https://t.co/aBS5lLHZub

@ItalianNavy @talentgardenen @TalentGardenit

[Mirai Robotics @mirairobotic]

In the US, defence startups are winning contracts.

In Italy, they are still filing balance sheets.

When procurement is built around established primes, it filters out exactly the companies that defence now needs most.

Europe is finally correcting course.

In March, the @EU_Commission introduced AGILE: a €115M programme aimed at funding individual startups, with a streamlined process designed
deliver funding decisions within 4 months of application.

The scheme can cover up to 100% of project costs and is focused on sectors such as AI, quantum technologies,
drones, and unmanned systems.

Italy has no equivalent. Not yet.

The next generation of sovereign defence technology will either be built here or bought back at a premium.

This is not a decision Italy can afford to defer.

[Mirai Robotics @mirairobotic]

In recent weeks, the Strait of Hormuz has made headlines for one reason above all others: the economic shock.

Now the human cost is impossible to ignore.

While announcing Project Freedom, Trump cut through the noise: ships in the Strait are running out of food. Basic sanitation for large crews at risk.

This is what maritime operations look like when they depend entirely on human presence in environments too dangerous to sustain.

The question now is whether humans must bear the full weight of it, or whether we build systems that reduce the exposure.

Decreasing human presence in high-risk maritime environments is not only a technological ambition.
At this moment, it's about human safety.

#MaritimeAutonomy #Defence #StraitofHormuz #OceanTech #AI

[Mirai Robotics @mirairobotic]

Trust is not only reliability of motion. It is reliability of purpose.

"Monitor that area." "Protect that infrastructure." "Find and assist that vessel in distress."
These are not instructions. They are missions. And when human oversight is unavailable, systems must keep pursuing that goal anyway.

Our Co-Founder, Luca Mascaro, on where the real problem begins.

Worth reading in full here: https://t.co/bXQi2PpjLO
#MaritimeAutonomy #PhysicalAI #MiraiRobotics #Autonomy #Defence

[Mirai Robotics @mirairobotic]

Autonomy at sea is already in the water.

Our first autonomous system is operational since January and successfully completed the initial round of sea trials.

It’s built around mission autonomy, receiving a target, planning and executing the operation, navigating complex environments, and avoiding obstacles. All without a crew on board and unsupervised.

This milestone marks a concrete step forward in our strategy to scale autonomous maritime capabilities and mission intelligence.

Read the full article to learn more about it ⬇️

@sole24ore https://t.co/gBx0FDldvm

[Mirai Robotics @mirairobotic]

The ocean is not remote.
It is under-instrumented.

That distinction matters.

Because when we describe the sea as distant, hostile or hard to reach, we risk treating its opacity as inevitable.

It is not.

What we are really looking at is an environment that has not yet been equipped with the level of sensing, intelligence and operational infrastructure that its importance demands.

The challenge is not that the sea matters less.

It is that we have built less visibility into one of the environments that matters most.

#Maritime #OceanTech #AI #Autonomy #MaritimeAutonomy

[Wired Italia @wireditalia]

Dalla sorveglianza delle rotte ai parchi eolici offshore, i veicoli marittimi autonomi iniziano a trovare applicazioni civili e militari. Tra le prime realtà europee che lavorano su queste tecnologie c’è l’italiana Mirai Robotics https://t.co/8yvxVM2gIV

[Mirai Robotics @mirairobotic]

Last month, the @EU_Commission published its first-ever Industrial Maritime Strategy.

It calls for:

✔️ joint procurement of maritime drones
✔️ more investment in maritime domain awareness
✔️ regulatory reform for autonomous ships
✔️ stronger protection for submarine cables

The signal is clear: Europe does not yet have persistent operational control of its own waters.

80% of EU external trade moves by sea. Critical subsea infrastructure remains exposed. The need is now defined.

We are building for it.

🔗 Link to strategy here: https://t.co/vXvHB9QoJ8

#EUMaritime #MaritimeAutonomy #EuropeanSovereignty

[Mirai Robotics @mirairobotic]

The next strategic operating systems will not be built only for land, air or cloud.

They will be built for the sea.

Proud to see Mirai featured by @TheInnovator as a startup highlight — a recognition that reinforces something we strongly believe: maritime autonomy is beginning to be understood for what it is, not as a niche opportunity, but as a broader industrial transition.

As our CEO and Co-Founder @lbelviso comments: “We see maritime autonomy today like aviation and the automobile industry at the beginning of the 20th century: a foundational technological transition that will create an entirely new industrial ecosystem.”

An important recognition — and a clear signal that this category is beginning to come into focus.

➡️Read more here: https://t.co/IQETnFFssQ

#Maritime #OceanTech #Autonomy #AI

[Mirai Robotics @mirairobotic]

Nobody owns the sea.

Not yet.

@wireditalia came to ask us how we plan to change that.

➡️ https://t.co/IR0NXPojDo

#MiraiRobotics #PhysicalAI #MaritimeAutonomy