As speculation continues on how automation will affect various industries, we are now seeing companies propose improvements to trade across oceans with automated ships. Rolls Royce recently released ...

The US Navy has completed its first-ever autonomous ship-to-ship refueling at sea for unmanned surface vessels, marking a major step toward a distributed, persistent unmanned fleet. The breakthrough ...

Great things happen when experts in their field join forces to create a revolutionary green shipping concept. This next-generation vessel is more than an answer to zero-emission maritime cargo ...

EVERETT — Politicians, naval officials and top executives of the federal Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) gathered Monday to christen the USX-1 Defiant, an autonomous ship prototype ...

The world’s first fully electric and self-steering container ship, owned by fertilizer maker Yara, is preparing to navigate Norway’s southern coast and play its part in the country’s plans to clean up ...

Despite its long history as a maritime nation, Norway is struggling to recruit enough seafarers. Increased automation and autonomous ships have been hailed as a solution to this crisis, but seafarers ...

Maritime leaders from the UK and Korea have advanced the regulatory and commercial future of Maritime Autonomous Surface Ships (MASS), following a technical workshop led by Lloyd’s Register (LR), the ...

With little fanfare, Anduril Industries spent tens of millions to revamp the old Foss Shipyard on the Lake Washington Ship Canal.

In a world where self-driving cars are starting to become ubiquitous, why shouldn’t we expect to see fleets of self-driving ships? That is indeed the vision of Mirai Robotics, an Italian start-up that ...

A world-first passenger ferry with advanced autonomous navigation has been unveiled in Japan, an Asian non-profit which is involved in a project to commercialise automated vessels announced on ...

The U.S. Navy has completed its first fully autonomous at-sea refueling between ships, overcoming a major hurdle to sustaining unmanned surface vessels (USVs) in contested waters. Demonstrated with ...