Autonomous ‘Roboats’ to debut in Amsterdam

Posted on 28 Sep 2016 by Michael Cruickshank

The Dutch city of Amsterdam will play host to one of the world’s first projects to develop autonomous capabilities for boats.

Organised by the Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Metropolitan Solutions (AMS), the project will involve researchers from two Dutch universities as well as MIT. The project itself, called Roboat, will attempt to create an autonomous boat able to be used in urban water-based transportation networks. Roboat will be funded to the tune of €25m and will…

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