”Shipowners have already shown keen interest in remote controlled and autonomous ship technologies. They want to become forerunners,”
says Mr. Oskar Levander, Vice President of Innovation from Rolls-Royce.
“
Unmanned ships
could not easily be
captured by pirates.
is AAWA, the Advanced Autonomous
Waterborne Applications Initiative.
”The AAWA project that was started
in late 2015 also incorporates scientists
from VTT and Rolls-Royce, with additional researchers focusing e.g. on technical, legal and safety challenges, recruited
from the Tampere University of Technology, Åbo Akademi University, Aalto University and the University of Turku,” Kaasinen
recounts.
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