Rolls-Royce has revealed plans for autonomous and remote-controlled cargo ships that can transport goods without needing a single human on board. According to a white paper published by the ...

On the Elbe Lateral Canal in northern Germany, the cargo vessel Niedersachsen 2 glides quietly along, carrying 2,500 tons of coal from Hamburg to a power plant in Berlin. On deck, everything looks ...

LONDON (Reuters) - The navies of Britain, Australia and the U.S. were able to control uncrewed ships in Australia while sitting more than 10,000 miles away in Portugal as part of a series of military ...

Rolls-Royce shares its vision of autonomous transportation. Ship-to-shore communication just got interesting—especially if the captain isn’t aboard. That’s the vision Rolls-Royce outlines for the ...

Sometime next April, a 50-foot-long autonomous ship will shake loose the digital bonds of its human controllers, scan the horizon with radar, and set a course westward across the Atlantic. The ...

HGK Shipping, based in the German port of Duisburg, is testing a plan to navigate its vessels remotely from a control centre on land - Copyright AFP/File Valeria ...

Autonomous vessels are set to revolutionize the shipping industry, whereby they will gradually and eventually transform global maritime trade through advances in artificial intelligence (AI), sensor ...