Where's all the autonomous ships?

There's a lot of talk about autonomous and unmanned planes, trains, cars and rockets, and in the marine sphere a lot of talk about unmanned autonomous ships. In the first of three episodes Craig Eason talks to experts about current developments to assess where the market currently stands and what it all means.

In the first episode he e-meets Pia Meling from Massterly- the manager of the Yara Birkelend project - and Ørnulf Rødseth at SINTEF Ocean a research group in Norway, to talk about commercial developments, and he talks to Brett Phaneuf the energy behind the Mayflower project which will send an autonomous vessel across the Atlantic 400 years after the original vessel made its historic voyage from Plymouth to Plymouth.

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