{"id":23907,"date":"2016-03-24T04:46:53","date_gmt":"2016-03-24T11:46:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/welcome-to-the-age-of-autonomous-drone-ships"},"modified":"2017-06-04T10:37:57","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T17:37:57","slug":"welcome-to-the-age-of-autonomous-drone-ships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/welcome-to-the-age-of-autonomous-drone-ships","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to the Age of Autonomous Drone Ships"},"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\/vg0A9Ve7SxE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Rolls-Royce has released their vision of the future of shipping, which will see the continued evolution of that ongoing trend toward automation and \u201cunmanned autonomy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, <a href=\"http:\/\/futurism.com\/welcome-age-autonomous-drone-ships\/www.rolls-royce.com\">Rolls-Royce <\/a>\u2014more famous for its luxury cars than its maritime contributions\u2014rolled out a slick new video detailing a number of projected innovations in containerized shipping. The company hopes to someday make these innovations a reality, and if they do, it will mean a revolution in the way we ship goods across the seas.<\/p>\n<p>In the film and pictures released by the company, we see a team of impossibly good-looking young coffee-drinking model types going about the business of controlling and monitoring seagoing vessels from the comfort of a shore-based, remote operations center\u2014what Rolls-Royce calls the \u201coX operator experience concept.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/futurism.com\/welcome-age-autonomous-drone-ships\/\">http:\/\/futurism.com\/welcome-age-autonomous-drone-ships\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rolls-Royce has released their vision of the future of shipping, which will see the continued evolution of that ongoing trend toward automation and \u201cunmanned autonomy.\u201d On Tuesday, Rolls-Royce \u2014more famous for its luxury cars than its maritime contributions\u2014rolled out a slick new video detailing a number of projected innovations in containerized shipping. The company hopes [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":388,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,1488,6,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-drones","category-robotics-ai","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23907","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\/388"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23907"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62299,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23907\/revisions\/62299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}