Autonomous Vehicles Solve (and Create) Problems for Ports Maritime Activity Reports, Inc. Wendy Laursen , Contributing Writer Wendy Laursen has more than 20 years of experience as a journalist.... June 22, 2026 Corsair, Saronic's 24-foot ASV, supports a wide range of applications including maritime domain awareness, port, harbor, and offshore facility security monitoring, logistics shuttle operations and environmental monitoring. Image courtesy Saronic Forcys has announced it will deploy its Sentinel Intruder Detection System across multiple sites for a close allied nation to protect vital elements of their critical national infrastructure. Image courtesy Forcys Ocean Aero’s Triton autonomous underwater and surface vehicle (AUSV) was taken up by the Port of Gulfport in Mississippi last year. Source: Ocean Aero Ocean Power Technologies (OPT) has partnered with Mythos AI to integrate AI-driven autonomy software. Image courtesy OPT Autonomous vehicles are increasingly sophisticated defensive tools for ports wanting to protect against maritime threats - including attacks from other autonomous vehicles. In December 15 last year, the Security Service of Ukraine reported that its underwater drone had struck a Russian submarine in Novorossiysk. The incident highlighted just how sophisticated potential threats have become. Harbor cameras were likely hacked, providing real-time visual evidence of the attack, with associated AI possibly identifying and guiding the autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) to its target. The value of AI is evidenced by the many technology partnerships that are forming between platform, software and sensor creators. Late last year, Ocean Power Technologies (OPT)  announced a partnership with Mythos AI to integrate AI-driven autonomy software across OPT’s fleet of WAM-V autonomous surface vehicles (ASVs) . These vehicles leverage real-time edge processing, multi-sensor fusion and adaptive learning for enhanced situational awareness, obstacle avoid