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    Autonomous drone ship to cross the Atlantic unmanned

    May 12, 2021 4 minutes
    By Ebbe Rasch

    Hundreds of people will line the pier to wave bon voyage when the Mayflower Autonomous Ship (MAS) leaves on its maiden ocean voyage across the Atlantic. But nobody will wave back. No sailors will be on deck, nobody will take the helm. Not even a captain will be aboard to chart the course.

    The Mayflower is the world’s most sophisticated autonomous ship, and it is currently completing trials before travelling 5800km from England’s Plymouth across the challenging waters of the North Atlantic to Plymouth, Massachusetts in the US, on the way providing scientists with new knowledge about the ocean, and perhaps how shipping could become safer and cheaper.

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