Clearbot’s latest fleet of self-driving electric boats will each be able to pick up 500kg of water-borne plastic and other rubbish when they are deployed in March. That is double the capacity of each of the company’s current robotic cleaners operating in the seas and lakes of India.
self driving boats. the designers hope they can breathalyse travel and commuting. # row, row, row your boat # gently down the stream. # actually, there s not much rowing involved. this is the autonomous floating vehicle, the roboat as in robot. an electric powered vessel that finds its own way around. we have a lot of open water available in the canals that is not being used anymore for transport. only for tourists. so we developed a self driving autonomous ship. for several years they have been testing the roboats on a project involving the massachusetts institute of technology. the small ships have no pilot and depend on sensors to avoid any unwanted aquatic encounters. so if you want to go from a to b, it automatically calculates the most efficient route to sail. then when it s sailing, it senses and maps the environment to see where are other objects