I recently stumbled upon Open Ocean Robotics which is a Canadian company building autonomous solar/wind powered drone boats that can get souped up with a bunch of sensors.
They can map the sea floor at ports, send back weather data on the open ocean so that ships can take faster/efficient routes and so weather prediction models can get more accurate (would have been useful for Dorian hey!), and they even have a microphone onboard to listen for whales and such.
That's pretty neat and all, but with the fact that they're using satellite to keep in constant contact with their boats I reckon there's probably a bunch more ideas and applications they could do. What do you think?
They also use a neat drive shaft system where they magnetically couple the motor to their propellor so theres no need to drill a hole in the hull and risk water getting it. That's pretty neat!
The company is trying to be the first to send an autonomous boat across the Atlantic, so good luck to them!
Submitted September 11, 2019 at 10:15AM by ministoj https://ift.tt/305IcGW via TikTokTikk
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