The 50-foot trimaran, Mayflower 400, which weighs nine tonnes and navigates with complete autonomy, is preparing for a transatlantic voyage. — AFP picPLYMOUTH, May 1 — The “Mayflower 400” — the world’s first intelligent ship — bobs gently in a light swell as it stops its engines in Plymouth Sound, off England’s southwest coast, before self-activating a hydrophone designed to listen to whales.
Rosie Lickorish, a specialist in emerging technologies at IBM, one of the partners on the project, said the unmanned craft provided an advantage in the “unforgiving environment”. The project would have cost 10 times the roughly US$1 million invested by ProMare without the “global effort,” he added.The non-profit venture will offer the data gathered by the project free of charge. The information could be of particular use to the future of commercial shipping.
While the Mayflower 400 voyage has been delayed because of the pandemic, Phaneuf said at least no one will fall ill on the trip. Developing its “smart captain”, the onboard artificial intelligence, took even longer as the computer has had to learn how to identify maritime obstacles by analysing thousands of photographs.The “Mayflower 400” also had to be taught how to avoid collisions and first went to sea for “supervised learning”.
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