ExaVibes AI-driven robot Mayflower recreates historic voyage

 

News Hub: a ship with no crew or passengers but a robotic captain driven by artificial intelligence to navigate the vessel the autonomous ship is set to embark on a transatlantic voyage retracing the formers of the famous voyage by the mayflower board about 400 years ago our next support tells you more 400 years ago mayflower made a famous voyage across the Atlantic carrying pilgrim settlers to America and making history

now its namesake a sleek robotic vessel is aiming to recreate the Atlantic crossing only with a modern twist the ship will be captained by a robot trained by IBM designed artificial intelligence the one million pound ship could become the largest ever autonomous vessel to cross it's the ocean as ready

 as it's going to be from a mechanical and electrical and a power and propulsion perspective and now we just want to continue to implement the autonomy and stress it and test it and throw things at it that it didn't see before make sure it's all working validate it and then yeah I think we're getting close everything seems to be working right now so armed with state-of-the-art tech vessel

 will be able to independently scan the horizon for possible hazards make informed decisions and change its course based on a matrix of live data warning hazard detected rather than having so many scientists on board trying to do lots of different jobs you can compress that down into a small payload like

this it really takes the stress off the scientists they can get focused on actually analyzing the data back in a comfy warm office whereas this is expendable it can go out there you can swap it out for different payloads later on if you want to and it's also you

 could you could cover far greater areas you could make lots and lots of these boxes and do lots of lots of experiments on many different ships whereas you've only got one scientist you can only do one thing at a time the creators of the ship are confident that the vessel could herald a new era of automated research ships we really need a huge amount of data to be able to actually

 understand what's going on with with the world's oceans and that's that's so important and using just traditional methods alone isn't going to allow us to actually really scale up how we do that so so together those traditional methods and the more recent innovations are really going to help enable us and give our scientists the information they need to really do those important tasks of around research and scientific breakthrough here after completing the six months of sea trials ibm's mayflower is all set to sail from the UK to the united states around april 19th on a course closely echoing the 1620 crossing bureau report we on world is one