@powerabout Belay my answer. There’ll be an app for that.
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Japan is in for a 2025 launch of “self-piloting” ships, on the road to fully autonomous ships some time later:
https://asia.nikkei.com/Tech-Science/Tech/Japan-aims-to-launch-self-piloting-ships-by-2025
Looks like a ramp to me.
Hydrogen is coming.
From Hydrogen meeting in New York:
And in Bonn:
When will it be ready to power a Mega Containership??
Noted without comment:
https://cacm.acm.org/opinion/articles/224627-risks-of-trusting-the-physics-of-sensors/fulltext
Cheers,
Earl
Rolls-Royce Marine opens Research and Development Centre in Finland:
https://www.rolls-royce.com/media/press-releases/yr-2018/25-01-2018-rr-opens-autonomous-ship-research-and-development-centre-in-finland.aspx
The article is a year old but it shows the promise of the future of unmanned shipping!
Navy: Saudi Frigate Attacked by Unmanned Bomb Boat, Likely Iranian
Does the attitude of “dinosaurs” hold up development in shipping??:
I get the impression that some of the sceptics that is holding back development are not oldtimers, but younger seafarers who are doing so because they are afraid they cannot adapt and renew their skills to fit the new reality.
The key to moving with the time is education, training and re-education as required to stay current and attractive for employers. Many countries are realizing this and are making facilities and funds available to do so.
Unions also need to accept that they cannot hold back development and hope to retain work for their member, unless they upgrade.
Ombugge, that link is just more crap.
The article implies that it is the small-minded mariner that is holding back a golden age of autonomous and autonomic tech from helping humankind. Absurd.
This is as accurate as saying it was the donkey or water buffalo that prevented a farming revolution. The mariner has almost no say in the matter, he just labors on the ships. The beast pulling the plowshare had no say in the development of the tractor.
You just like to link these crap articles that blame the mariner for being small-minded and afraid.
The real decision makers in this regard are those who weigh the costs and benefits of these things. That means those who shape public opinion, weigh risk and figure out the cheapest way to do things. The mariner is not in that chain.
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No, the backward thinking and attitude is as much accredited to management as seafarers.
We’ve been watching tech replace humans for a long time now. Logging and mining, manufacturing and milling, warfare and transportation. Some times people resisted but that rarely lasts long. Money and the making of money has always won out.
If it were so simple for the working man and his union to fend off job destroying technology we would still have cars made by well paid humans and not profit-efficient robotics. Bread would be baked by bakers. Furniture would be hand-made. Farmers wouldn’t have to compete against the industrial combine harvester.
No sir. Once again you blame the surf but not his lord and master. The real pace of progress is not set by the mariner but by the investor.
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Is shipping heading for a bubble similar to the Dot.com debacle?:
http://splash247.com/ship-tech-bubble-debate/
Some delegates at the International e-Navigation Underway Conference got to see a demonstration of what the ship tech future may look like:
http://www.maritimejournal.com/news101/onboard-systems/monitoring-and-control/conference-takes-a-step-forward-in-e-navigation
While Transas got to present their THESIS, an AI cloud-based platform for managing all maritime operations:
http://www.maritimejournal.com/news101/onboard-systems/monitoring-and-control/transas-a-suite-uses-ai-to-reduce-human-error
Is “the future” already here for those ready to embrace it??
With the USA trying to onboard more manufacturing and robots doing away with cheap labour the transport will become a major expense in manufacturing as it does when the price of oil skyrockets
Will Wartsila buy RR marine??
One of the possibilities, with Aker Solution and Kongsberg Group also mentioned.
There are rumours that the Chinese are lurking in the wings.
Let us just hope it doesn’t go to some hedge fund or stripping artists from Wall Street or the City.
The break through of electric ferries are now a reality in Norway and other electric vessels are coming around the world:
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“I would like to see unmanned flotillas operating in the western Pacific and the Persian Gulf within five years," said former Deputy Defense Secretary Robert Work.
Gee, I feel safer already!
Does that mean they will transfer the confusion from the bridge to a control room in Arizona, or somewhere?
Yes. And it also means us 'Mericans beat everybody to the automated ship dealio.