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The future, despite the huge operating sea-friendly transporter and computer controlled environment.

Autonomous drones find their targets, and test the self-propelled cars managed to maneuver through the city traffic-only free ship crew which.
That will apply under international maritime law, ships of the ghost.
Different, however, in the following countries: territorial waters could make their own laws-and allows the robot ship for coastal shipping.

This is what the concept of "rebellion" is, a, autonomously driven, electrically driven short-haul container ships of 60 metres in length over a hundred containers of standard (100 TEUS).
This ship classification societies developed Norway Germany Det Norske Veritas-Germanischer Lloyd (GL, DNV) in Oslo.

Ships of this type of Revolt could replace the 300-TEU ships feeders now distribute the containers from the port to major international ports in the throughout the coast.
And even quite soon. For the concept of a Revolt brings together techniques available and proven navigation.
This includes GPS, electronic mapping and information system ECDIS, Radar, optical distance measurement and speed with Laser (LIDAR), automatic ship identification system AIS collision warning, and a camera.

Electric propulsion energy chose Norway as, among other things, because they get a lot of water power and hence remain carbon neutral.
In addition, electrical ship propulsion system with an efficiency of around 60 percent more economical diesel is far superior. The last to leave 85 percent of the energy generated from transportation, friction and heat lost.
In addition, the electric drive system is virtually maintenance free. The move is just part of the propeller.
Two blades under the tail of the capsule is fully rotated. A capsule of the propeller was withdrawn under the landing maneuvers help arc automatic.

In addition, the weight of batteries for extra stability, so that the Revolt should there be water ballast when empty.
Battery capacity 3,000 kilowatt hours, up to 100 nautical miles, 185 miles is sufficient.
That created the ship as well as the engineers limit the average speed of 11 kilometers per hour, significantly reducing barriers to the flow.

Vertical bow shape that will benefit just ride faster, improved hydrodynamics in accordance with the additional tests.
Charging the battery in the port should last four hours are not longer than the unloading operation. New batteries require short-haul cargo after 15 years, half of his likely service life.

Currently the developer test the prototype three feet long in a fjord near Oslo. If the Revolt was built, they would not be more expensive than conventional ships of the same size, with about ten million US dollars.
On the contrary, however, it will save in 30 years, about 34 million u.s. dollars in operational costs. Realization of Roboschiffs stands for designers but not in the first place.
We hope that with the manufacturer of rebellion and the shipyard can be an inspiration in the search for new solutions for a sustainable future,

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Computer scientists at Carnegie Mellon University have developed a robot that asking people for help if they get stuck. This has many advantages.

Visitors to the computer science professor Manuela Veloso at the University in Pittsburgh, PA, met at the reception was very polite and a wizard to help guide guests in his Office.

Something peculiar though: these people will stop at the elevator and asked with electronic sound that is heard, do quick times visitors can push buttons for seven-floor "and then asked me" Finish "when we have reached the stage".

Verlosos maid at Carnegie Mellon University is of course not a human, but rather a special robot, called Cobot.
The device looks like a laptop attached along with an array of sensors on a scrolling bar stools.
It has no arms, hands and the vocabulary is somewhat limited. But this circumvents the limitations of Cobot technical with the help of a trick is very effective.

Every time a problem arises that Cobot can't solve-to call the elevator to lift an object or to find people who can not just robots asking people nearby.
And no one in the hand, he just sent an email to the entire Office.

"I worked for a long time in the field of autonomic system," Veloso said, "but it's just difficult to program a robot to understand any language and can take any object, even if he has a weapon.
"Therefore, they have found that a robot that really should be fully autonomous, a" call for help "mode needs.

Some Velosos Cobots moves through the Institution of computer science, delivers packages between the lab and the Office or lead guests around.
Together, they have tens of thousands of hours of operation.

The robot looks a little odd, sometimes disturbing (Veloso acknowledged that some employees questioned the constant annoying).
But they show how a simple form of human-machine collaboration can help an autonomous machine to take new roles at home and at work.
The robots are programmed so that they ask for help if needed, much easier than voice recognition system can be enhanced to the point that they completely understand everyone.
And not only must the gripper arm can lift any object in 100 percent of cases.

"This is a very good idea," said Bilge Mutlu, a lecturer at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, who explores the interactions between humans and robots.
"This is a process that is flexible and adaptable to everyday life."

Collaboration between humans and robots are becoming increasingly cultivated in the industrial sector.
Velosos approach can now push forward with final consumers to develop a novel robotic service.
"I am absolutely convinced that today we have robots in our homes when people will accept the limitations of the current system," he said.

Some of these robots are already on the market. The Tug of Aethon moved from Pittsburgh Medical equipment to the hospital.
This system does not require a special radio station for navigation or other special techniques: this procedure is a robot, he contacted members of the humans from the support team at Aethon, which then directs her from a distance on the right track.

According to Veloso the next generation Cobots alone can know when the human-assistance needed-when the specified scenario is cancelled.

Previous experience shows that open here both for research and for the company's key areas.
"Even if we do not reach 100 percent autonomy, should not prevent us from installing the autonomous system," said Mutlu. (Will the Knights)/(bsc)