Amsterdam is to start testing driverless electric boats on its canals. The Dutch city’s more than 60 miles of waterways will host prototypes of fully-autonomous electric vessels, to carry out tasks including transporting passengers and picking up waste. Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Metropolitan Solutions and Massachusetts Institute of Technology are collaborating on the Roboat project that aims to develop new ways of navigating the world’s waterways without a human hand at the wheel.
Christian Masilge ist zufrieden: »Das Fahrzeug tut, was es soll.« Der Leiter der Schiffbau-Versuchsanstalt Potsdam lehnt mit Dreitagebart und weißem Hemd an der Stahlwand des hauseigenen Testkanals. Es riecht nach Schmieröl und Metall. Links und rechts vom Becken verlaufen schmale Gänge mit knarzenden Holzplanken, über der 280-Meter-Rinne thront eine fahrbare Kommandobrücke.
Soon, an autonomous boat will sail the canals of Amsterdam, transporting goods or people, collecting waste or serving as a floating platform and bridge. The first large “Roboat” will be tested around the Navy grounds in the capital in the coming months. In the future, the autonomously operating boats should relieve the city centre of Amsterdam of traffic over the quays and bridges.
Amsterdam researchers have launched the first full-sized pilot version of a self-driving boat that they hope will solve the city’s transport gridlock and rubbish problems at a stroke. The Roboat, a five-year research project by Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Metropolitan Solutions and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, aims to use autonomous floating vessels that can dock and lock together as a way to make better use of Amsterdam’s canals.
Binnenkort vaart er een zelfsturende boot over de Amsterdamse grachten die goederen of personen vervoert, afval ophaalt of dient als drijvend platform en brug. Rondom het Marineterrein in de hoofdstad wordt namelijk in de komende maanden de eerste grote ‘roboat’ getest. De zelfsturende boten moeten in de toekomst de binnenstad van Amsterdam ontlasten van verkeer over de kades en bruggen.
Binnenkort vaart er een zelfsturende boot over de Amsterdamse grachten die goederen of personen vervoert, afval ophaalt of dient als drijvend platform en brug. Rondom het Marineterrein wordt in de komende maanden de eerste grote ‘roboat’ getest.
Amsterdam: la città è ormai stata riconosciuta come pioniera della mobilità sull’acqua grazie questo progetto. RoundAround è una vera rivoluzione del settore che fonde sapientemente design e mobilità infrastrutturale, nessuna città fino a questo momento si era mai spinta così oltre. Il progetto è stato curato dall’AMS, Istituto di Amsterdam per le soluzioni metropolitane avanzate in collaborazione con i ricercatori del sensible city lab del MIT, che hanno sviluppato un concept mai visto prima: un ponte dinamico fatto di barche autonome.
Ερευνητές στο MIT σε συνεργασία με το Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Metropolitan Solutions (AMS Institute) έχουν ξεκινήσει την ανάπτυξη της πρώτης δυναμικής γέφυρας στον κόσμο κατασκευασμένη πλήρως από αυτόνομες βάρκες – ρομπότ. Σκοπός τους είναι να ενώσουν την περιοχή Marineterrein Amsterdam με την πόλη του Amsterdam, μεταφέροντας με την βοήθεια της τεχνολογίας εκατοντάδες ανθρώπους κάθε ώρα πάνω από το κανάλι.
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MIT’s fleet of robotic boats has been updated with new capabilities to “shapeshift,” by autonomously disconnecting and reassembling into a variety of configurations, to form floating structures in Amsterdam’s many canals.
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The Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Metropolitan Solutions (AMS Institute) and researchers at MIT have developed roundAround, the world’s first dynamic ‘bridge’ made of autonomous vessels known as Roboat units.
The Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Metropolitan Solutions (AMS) has teamed with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to create roundAround: a fleet of autonomous boats that would run between the island of Kattenburg to the east of Amsterdam and the city centre. The boats would move in a continuous circle across the canal, picking up and dropping off passengers via a charging station.
Amsterdam is a city of bridges, some of them widely experimental. But a new concept from MIT’s Sensible City Lab and the Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Metropolitan Solutions trumps them all with roundAround, which imagines the bridge as a series of autonomous boats that shuttle people across waterways.