On June 8, it was reported that an unmanned ship named "Mayflower" completed the first fully autonomous and unmanned transatlantic voyage on the high seas** Supported by IBM's AI, the ship was designed and built by promare, a non-profit maritime research organization. It was piloted by artificial intelligence (AI). On April 27, it set sail from Plymouth port in the United Kingdom to the coast of Virginia in the United States.
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The 5-ton, 50 foot long autonomous captain of the ship, worth 1million pounds (US $1.3 million), is to reproduce the historical journey of the Mayflower from Britain to the new world more than 400 years ago.
Guided by the ship's "Ai captain", the ship sails at a speed of about 9 miles per hour, and the sudden speed can reach 18 miles per hour.
Ships can use the combination of radar, camera and automatic identification system (AIS) to respond to marine traffic in real time. The system can transmit the longitude and latitude of the Mayflower to other ships.
At the same time, it will also collect "key" data about the ocean, such as the number of whales, the use of their microphones and plastic traces of sampled water**
IBM's goal is to build Mayflower into an open marine research platform, reduce the cost and the burden on scientists and sailors, and make them easier to face the dangers and unpredictable environment in the process of data collection.
