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After Driverless Cars, Now Sailor-Less Ships: Rolls Royce To Develop Autonomous Vessels In Collaboration With Intel

Swarajya StaffOct 18, 2018, 04:50 PM | Updated 04:49 PM IST
Autonomous Technologies are rapidly improving (@RollsRoyce/Twitter)

Autonomous Technologies are rapidly improving (@RollsRoyce/Twitter)


Rolls Royce and Intel will be jointly developing autonomous ships, Interesting Engineering has reported. Rolls Royce announced that it would develop fully autonomous ships with no humans on board by the year 2025. As part of the longer plan, the company introduced its Intelligent Awareness System for crewed ships earlier this year.


The autonomous ship will have a large network full of cameras, radar, and LIDAR, which will be controlled by a centralised program. Vision algorithms on board the proposed autonomous ship will be able to detect obstacles in night time and within busy ports.


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