Autonomous speedboat designer Saronic aims to use its fat warchest to build America’s largest shipyard and help the US to ...

Citizen Science is a great way to get normal people engaged in the work of understanding our world. For residents who live near a stunningly polluted waterway — like, say, the gross Gowanus Canal — it ...

Mechanical engineering students have developed an unmanned sailing boat that can reach any given destination completely autonomously. The Avalon robot sailing boat is due to set sail from Ireland in ...

The Croatian robot "Carpathia" is a link between robotics and the nautical world, and it's all the creation of one innovator from Rijeka.

BOSTON -- Self-driving cars may not hit the road in earnest for many years -- but autonomous boats could be just around the pier. Spurred in part by the car industry's race to build driverless ...

Planning a hostile takeover of your local swimming pool? This might help: [Dr Anders Lyhne Christensen] sent us a note about his work at the BioMachines Lab of the Institute of Telecommunications in ...

A robot no bigger than a surfboard has done what no machine has ever done before. On September 28, a small, wind-powered ocean robot became the first uncrewed surface vehicle (USV) to capture and ...

U.S. Navy ships face the growing threat of small boat swarms used by terrorists, pirates or enemy countries. New testing has shown off a possible counter that looks strangely similar except for the ...

China has unveiled its first robot missile boat. The Look Out II, developed by the Yunzhou Tech company, was displayed at Airshow China 2018 in Zhuhai last week, according to China’s state-owned ...

As a tugboat captain pulled an unmanned U.S. military drone boat out of Naval Base Ventura County in California recently, there seemed little danger. But then, the robot vessel suddenly turned itself ...

Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) are making our geeky childhood dreams come true by building real-life ...