Newlab, located in Detroit’s new Corktown mobility innovation district, has lined up Florida-based Mythos AI as the first participant for its multimodal logistics challenge — a coalition of startups, industry leaders, and government agencies working to improve efficiency and resilience in supply chains through pilot projects.
Mythos AI’s goal is to advance maritime commerce by mapping marine highways while simultaneously developing algorithms for self-driving in-shore vessels.
Together with Newlab, the Port of Monroe, and Michigan Central, the company is conducting an eight-week pilot program to map the port berths and anchorages at the Port of Monroe.
The port is a strategic waterway that connects the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean. The completed project should create a digital twin of the region and expose the machine learning to waterway-specific conditions.
The goal is to create automated marine highways, which are the key to increasing port efficiency, lowering maritime carbon emissions, and creating supply chain resilience. Disaggregated marine shipping will use smaller boats, rivers, and in-land waterways to move goods more efficiently and resolve bottlenecks.
“The Great Lakes-St Lawrence System is one of the most complex marine highway networks in the world, thus making us a prime test platform for innovative maritime technologies,” says Paul LaMarre, director of the Port of Monroe.
“Newlab’s development process is facilitating new relationships with startups that will allow us to transform our port facilities into a living lab for the future of logistics. Our pilot with Mythos AI has immediately enhanced our situational awareness of our waterway while providing critical data for real-time navigation and engineering applications.”
Newlab’s multimodal logistics challenge is tackling underinvestment in transportation infrastructure. In partnership with startups like Mythos AI, Newlab is seeking to drive supply chain resilience by establishing sustainable transportation nodes that create critical redundancy across supply chains.
“Ports are critical logistics nodes that must remain at the forefront of technological advancement to keep up with the rise in shipping and maritime activity,” says Sahil Jain, director of strategy at Newlab.
“By digitizing and automating port infrastructure and operations, we can achieve a transformative shift towards decentralized and decarbonized multi-modal logistics. This pilot at the Port of Monroe is the first step to accelerating the utilization of marine highways for sustainable and scalable freight movement.”
To read more and join Newlab’s Multimodal Logistics Challenge, visit here.
