In this episode of The Innovation Sandbox, Professional Sailor Jack Trigger, our Senior Data Scientist Roman Kastusik and our CEO, Eric Topham, discuss how they managed to teach AI how to sail. Throughout the episode, you will hear them discuss challenges, methodologies and implications of applying Machine Learning models to sailing boats as well as the next steps of the project.

2021 marks the second year of The Innovation Sandbox portal since it was launched and will see several new and continued projects taking place with new students and new partnerships. The Innovation Sandbox is a collaborative initiative at the confluence of industry-academia, allowing both academic types of research on real-world datasets and the transfer of cutting-edge machine learning research into industry application