Later this month, a 35-foot-long tugboat is scheduled to depart from Hamburg with passengers on board—and commanding officers watching remotely from thousands of miles away.
It took Odysseus ten years to find his way home but a modern day Odyssey about to launch involves an autonomous tug boat that will find its own way on a 1,000 mile journey.
Sea Machines has announced that it will send an autonomous, remotely commanded tugboat on a 1,000 nautical mile (1,150 mile) “Machine Odyssey” voyage around Denmark.
In a milestone moment slated to prove that the world’s waterways are primed and ready for autonomous technology, Sea Machines will circumnavigate Denmark on a multi-week 1,000 nautical mile remotely commanded commercial voyage.