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"I'm dr nikki ackerman's moments and today. We're going to break down one of the signs headlines of the week on thursday's episode of detainees we talked about. Mit's computer science artificial intelligence laboratory or see sale deploying autonomous passenger boats in the canals of amsterdam. They call it rowboat and it has been in development. For six years full-scale service will be able to carry five passengers or transport additional loads or collect waste and it launched just this week. Rowboat is fully electric and can navigate all on. Its own kind of like a ghost ship. Which is very spooky right. Let's get into some goes ships. Science see sale alongside the sensible city laboratory and the amsterdam institute for advanced metropolitan solutions started prototyping small vessels in the it in two thousand fifteen. Last year. the team released a half scale two meter longboat. And now it's out. In full-scale rowboat is fully electric with ten hour charge and can navigate amsterdam's waters all on its own. It has the ability to dock in a port or approach another boat safely using dynamic positioning it uses. Gps for routing and cameras as well as lighter to avoid obstacles and onshore operator can monitor up to fifty boats remotely lied stands for light detection and ranging it's an active remote-sensing system used for measuring the exact distance of an object on the earth surface and when it's coupled with gps it can calculate very accurate geospatial measurements a pulse. Laser is directed towards an object. And the time it takes to return is used to calculate the objects distance. This then generates three spatial information about the objects position. Other examples of light are use include oceanography to visualize the ocean floor or archaeology to locate ancient structures like roads and buildings. The rowboat uses light are along with three hundred sixty degree cameras and feeds this information to an algorithm to understand its surroundings. These are similar algorithms. That are used for self driving cars. For example when an object like a canoe is perceived by these cameras the algorithm flags it and alters rowboats path by activating the thrusters and propelling the boat to move around the object and it will be able to easier recognize this object. The future thanks to this algorithm rowboats. Latching mechanism is equally as impressive as it uses specific. Qr codes to connect to other boats or dock itself. This system allows wrote to form temporary bridges between canals or floating stages and dock itself in a designated location see sale hopes that future iterations of rowboat will soon pilot the public domain other companies in the marine industry are developing autonomous ships for purposes varying from cargo to surveillance and defense oceanography or sailing artists technologies designed to self sailing catamaran featured in the twenty seventeen america's cup and ibm is developing a new. Ai guided mayflower full of oceanographic sensors and anti collision systems. But it's still in the testing phase to see if it can properly function in high traffic areas since the mayflower maiden voyage aim to recreate the trip of its namesake but failed three days in rolls. Royce is working on an autonomous ferry in finland that can also be remote controlled and has racked up over four hundred hours of sea trials. But of all these boats robot is the first to launch into the main stream. If you know what i mean. These autonomous boats really redefine the meaning of a skeleton crew from our discussion of the.
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"mit computer science artificial intelligence laboratory" Discussed on Daily Tech News Show
"I'm dr nikki ackerman's moments and today. We're going to break down one of the signs headlines of the week on thursday's episode of detainees we talked about. Mit's computer science artificial intelligence laboratory or see sale deploying autonomous passenger boats in the canals of amsterdam. They call it rowboat and it has been in development. For six years full-scale service will be able to carry five passengers or transport additional loads or collect waste and it launched just this week. Rowboat is fully electric and can navigate all on. Its own kind of like a ghost ship. Which is very spooky right. Let's get into some goes ships. Science see sale alongside the sensible city laboratory and the amsterdam institute for advanced metropolitan solutions started prototyping small vessels in the it in two thousand fifteen. Last year. the team released a half scale two meter longboat. And now it's out. In full-scale rowboat is fully electric with ten hour charge and can navigate amsterdam's waters all on its own. It has the ability to dock in a port or approach another boat safely using dynamic positioning it uses. Gps for routing and cameras as well as lighter to avoid obstacles and onshore operator can monitor up to fifty boats remotely lied stands for light detection and ranging it's an active remote-sensing system used for measuring the exact distance of an object on the earth surface and when it's coupled with gps it can calculate very accurate geospatial measurements a pulse. Laser is directed towards an object. And the time it takes to return is used to calculate the objects distance. This then generates three spatial information about the objects position. Other examples of light are use include oceanography to visualize the ocean floor or archaeology to locate ancient structures like roads and buildings. The rowboat uses light are along with three hundred sixty degree cameras and feeds this information to an algorithm to understand its surroundings. These are similar algorithms. That are used for self driving cars. For example when an object like a canoe is perceived by these cameras the algorithm flags it and alters rowboats path by activating the thrusters and propelling the boat to move around the object and it will be able to easier recognize this object. The future thanks to this algorithm rowboats. Latching mechanism is equally as impressive as it uses specific. Qr codes to connect to other boats or dock itself. This system allows wrote to form temporary bridges between canals or floating stages and dock itself in a designated location see sale hopes that future iterations of rowboat will soon pilot the public domain other companies in the marine industry are developing autonomous ships for purposes varying from cargo to surveillance and defense oceanography or sailing artists technologies designed to self sailing catamaran featured in the twenty seventeen america's cup and ibm is developing a new. Ai guided mayflower full of oceanographic sensors and anti collision systems. But it's still in the testing phase to see if it can properly function in high traffic areas since the mayflower maiden voyage aim to recreate the trip of its namesake but failed three days in rolls. Royce is working on an autonomous ferry in finland that can also be remote controlled and has racked up over four hundred hours of sea trials. But of all these boats robot is the first to launch into the main stream. If you know what i mean. These autonomous boats really redefine the meaning of a skeleton crew from our discussion of the.