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‘Roboat’ Aims to Bring Autonomous Boats to Amsterdam

https://blog.adafruit.com/2016/10/26/roboat-aims-to-bring-autonomous-boats-to-amsterdam/

As self-driving cars hit the road, autonomous boats are entering Amsterdam’s canals. The ‘roboat’ project — a research collaboration between MIT and AMS, the Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Metropolitan Solutions — seeks to design and test the world’s first fleet of autonomous boats in the city of Amsterdam. Each water-based unit ( a ‘roboat’ ) can be used for transporting goods and people and for creating temporary floating infrastructures, such as self-assembling bridges and concert stages.

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