{"id":115121,"date":"2020-10-26T13:25:46","date_gmt":"2020-10-26T20:25:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/mit-tests-autonomous-roboat-that-can-carry-two-passengers"},"modified":"2020-10-26T13:25:46","modified_gmt":"2020-10-26T20:25:46","slug":"mit-tests-autonomous-roboat-that-can-carry-two-passengers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/mit-tests-autonomous-roboat-that-can-carry-two-passengers","title":{"rendered":"MIT tests autonomous \u2018Roboat\u2019 that can carry two passengers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OYmVwvP_pD0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>MIT looked at the original Roboat as \u201cquarter-scale\u201d option, with the Roboat II being half-scale; they\u2019re slowly working up to the point of a full-scale option that can carry four to six passengers. That bigger version is already under construction in Amsterdam, but there\u2019s no word on when it\u2019ll be ready for testing. In the meantime, Roboat II seems like it can pretty effectively navigate Amsterdam \u2014 MIT says that it autonomously navigated the city\u2019s canals for three hours collecting data and returned to where it left with an error margin of less than seven inches.<\/p>\n<p>Going forward, the MIT team expects to keep improving the Roboat\u2019s algorithms to make it better able to deal with the challenges a boat might find, like disturbances from currents and waves. They\u2019re also working to make it more capable of identifying and \u201cunderstanding\u201d objects it comes across so it can better deal with the environment it\u2019s in. Everything the half-scale Roboat II learns will naturally be applied to the full-scale version that\u2019s being worked on now. There\u2019s no word on when we might see that bigger Roboat out in the waters, though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MIT looked at the original Roboat as \u201cquarter-scale\u201d option, with the Roboat II being half-scale; they\u2019re slowly working up to the point of a full-scale option that can carry four to six passengers. That bigger version is already under construction in Amsterdam, but there\u2019s no word on when it\u2019ll be ready for testing. In the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information-science","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}