Oceangoing ships perhaps could
be remotely steered from a control
centre located somewhere far away
on dry land. This idea would certainly
change the working practices of ship
controllers and captains.
“
There should be no real
reason why the same
concept would not work aboard
ships as well.
T
he renowned international engine
the combined expertise of Rolls-Royce and
concepts and technology for unmanned
ships.
and equipment manufacturing com-
some of Finland’s top academic research-
pany Rolls-Royce has participated in several
ers from Tampere University of Technol-
projects that could pave the way for auton-
ogy and VTT Technical Research Centre of
A BELIEVABLE CONCEPT
omous ships. In some of these projects,
Finland has been utilised to develop new
Principal Scientist Eija Kaasinen from VTT
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