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Self-driving Mayflower ship powered by IBM software will sail across the Atlantic
Release time：2024-09-19click：0
According to foreign media reports, according to project organizers, an autonomous ship equipped with software developed by IBM set sail across the Atlantic on Tuesday local time. The Mayflower Autonomous Ship (MAS) is an ocean research ship driven by AI and solar energy. It was completed in September last year. It will travel across the ocean to collect environmental data. The name of this ship commemorates the Mayflower that crossed the American continent 400 years ago.
MAS has been conducting sea trials and various research missions over the past few months in preparation for this grand voyage from Plymouth, UK to Massachusetts, USA. It will work with scientists and other autonomous vessels to gather information on issues such as global warming, microplastic pollution and marine mammal conservation.
Weather is an important factor in deciding when to set sail. The team is consulting with meteorologists at IBM's The Weather Company every day to select an ideal departure window and increase the chance of mission success.
The ship is led by a team from Plymouth and IBM's software engineering team and uses radar and GPS to navigate. Six cameras on the mast act as the ship's "eyes," feeding information into an AI image recognition system to help the ship avoid oncoming ships and other hazards. It is reported that the voyage to the United States is estimated to take about three weeks.
(Original title: The "Mayflower" self-driving ship powered by IBM software will cross the Atlantic)
