Large “robot ships” are rapidly going into service and have been hailed as a revolution in shipping.
The vessles are controlled remotely with hardly any crew on board – it has meant the ships can be smaller so require less fuel and have a much reduced carbon footprint.
Autonomy, robotics and remote operation, along with artificial intelligence, are set to transform shipping and experiments are underway around the world.
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I did not see any sails.
Fantastics
That looks brilliant.
Of course Nikola Tesla made the very first remotely controlled water borne vessel in 1898 (patent # 613,809).
I am guessing his ghost is chuckling to himself right about now.
What happens in a massive storm and a huge rogue wave rips all of the antennas away, thus breaking the connection to the remote Pilot station?
These ships are literally titling at windmills. This will be good for the ship owners but not for the merchant marines. This is the way it’s going in many industries and services, automation, jobs lost, more profits for industry and less share of the pie for the working man or woman. This is why a guaranteed living wage will be needed or else there will be no one able to purchase the goods and services and the whole thing will crash into anarchy and pitchforks. The governments and industry will largely control the swarms of military drones that go to war for us and unfortunate people will be blown to bits and put in the military industrial meat grinder, as usual. So robotics service technician it is then. Chip and sensor and servo motor manufacturers will continue to clean up while China will continue to pile on the cheap garbage for mass consumption. Some of that will end up in the Marias trench no doubt, where micro plastics already make their presence felt in the micro-organism community and on up the food chain. New age gurus will spin yarn and ‘magic mumbo jumbo’ in order to fake remove heavy metals and micro-plastics from human organisms while what plastic is recovered will be plenty enough for all the rhinosplasty and breast enhancement required by the vainest species on the planet.
This is stupid and we shouldn't be praising it.
The ONLY reason for this is to increase profit for already very wealthy companies, and to put skilled people out of jobs.
Keep sci-fi fiction.
AAA! EYE!!!
Robot Ships what’s next Robot trains and Robot planes.
The journalistic rigour leaving my body whenever I interview a tech startup
my immediate thought: pirates
Woww
I can't even get regular reliable WI-FI at home, and they think this will go it alone for weeks. Next it will be aircraft. Fancy flying on holiday, no crew, no pilots.
I bet its not long till excited reporters get replaced by AI art and chatGPT scripts. Won't it be a wonderful world when no one has a job because everything is automated!
I’d probably settle for any chip able to not hit whales, other ships, while spotting those lost at sea. Not spilling oil’s also important, and avoiding hitting the sea floor, etc.
Nice drone
Why can some startups be allowed to innovate things where it doesn't need innovations? There's so many factors that could make this "unmanned" shipping be very wrong, 1 is being constantly prone to hacking, 2 is lasers are being developed by now that can instantly fry mechanicals, circuits and signal antennas 3 is the massive reduction of manpower which means unemployment is inevitable, 4 is being prone to piracy as ship crews are reduced to about 60% of the original number. So many things I could add up but those are the few important ones. There are fields and areas that technology shouldn't be interfering. I hope this gets cancelled, and if it does not atleast I hope it won't make it to shipping companies.
Robin Bullock prophetic word let it be a warning 8th March youtube 2024
and less job for people who needs it
…big fn bubble of radiation that lil one was…
What happens when the onshore connection gets cut? The technology and the ship itself become useless, or worse hijacked by a bad actor. Electronic warfare will test this idea thoroughly in the coming decades.
automaton filth
Terrible idea, terrible
As a yachtsman these things terrify me.
Fewer people on board means lower costs, and therefore cheaper goods for consumers in the long term. Moving these jobs into static locations (rather than having people live much of the year on a ship) will also be good for the employee's mental health. Plus, less people means less cabins and goods to carry, which means a lighter ship built with less materials using less fuel, so good for the environment. I think this sounds great.
Houthis licking their lips!
Let human become AI
So as a captain for the same money instead of driving 1 ship you drive 5. Great! Crew gonna love this! 🤣🤣
You forgot to put "#ad"
Pretty sure the autonomous ships used to capture SpaceX rockets are bigger than this and they are FULLY autonomous.
An interesting hack for someone.
And an interesting salvage for someone else.
Anyone here in 2033 when this company is either defunct or been bought up by an S&P Global 100 company?
Great less jobs for those pesky humans
So making people unemployed, great
What if that captain from miles away has bad day and just send you to the black sea warzone without your consent?
Lethal Autonomous Weapons.
We already have SpaceX droneships.
Somali pirates wet dream, bet they cant wait till these type of vessels start appearing around their shores
Not actually robotic, more remotely pilotted (doubtless with an on-board autopilot too)
Making stealing easier. Block the signal take the ship
Woah, the niside tho ❤