{"id":139746,"date":"2022-05-23T21:03:06","date_gmt":"2022-05-24T02:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/china-launches-an-autonomous-mothership-full-of-autonomous-drones"},"modified":"2022-05-23T21:03:06","modified_gmt":"2022-05-24T02:03:06","slug":"china-launches-an-autonomous-mothership-full-of-autonomous-drones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/china-launches-an-autonomous-mothership-full-of-autonomous-drones","title":{"rendered":"China launches an autonomous mothership full of autonomous drones"},"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\/hoMFzx8t1ms?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>China christened a remarkable new 290-foot ship last week \u2013 the world\u2019s first semi-autonomous drone carrier. It\u2019ll carry, launch, recover and co-ordinate the actions of more than 50 other autonomous aerial, surface and underwater vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>The Huangpu Wenchong Shipyard began construction on the Zhu Hai Yun last July in Guangzhou. According to the <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/video\/china\/3178495\/new-marine-species-chinas-world-first-drone-carrying-ship-capable-operating-its\" target=\"_blank\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">South China Morning Post<\/a>, it\u2019s the first carrier of its kind, a self-contained autonomous platform that will roll out with everything necessary to perform a fully integrated operation including drone aircraft, boats and submersibles.<\/p>\n<p>China doesn\u2019t expect it to navigate busy seaports by itself, like the <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/marine\/suzaku-autonomous-ship-navigation\/\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">Japanese autonomous container ship Suzaku<\/a> we wrote about last week. Instead, the Zhu Hai Yun will run on remote control until it\u2019s out in the open water, and then its self-driving systems will take over to execute whatever mission it\u2019s running.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China christened a remarkable new 290-foot ship last week \u2013 the world\u2019s first semi-autonomous drone carrier. It\u2019ll carry, launch, recover and co-ordinate the actions of more than 50 other autonomous aerial, surface and underwater vehicles. The Huangpu Wenchong Shipyard began construction on the Zhu Hai Yun last July in Guangzhou. According to the South China [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139746","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139746\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}