An electric boat steers close to a full-size replica of the 18th century three-mast trading ship Amsterdam at the National Maritime Museum in Amsterdam. Already steeped in maritime history, the city’s more than 100 kilometers (60 miles) of waterways are to start hosting prototypes of futuristic boats – small, fully-autonomous electric vessels – to carry out tasks including transporting passengers and picking up garbage. — AP
AMSTERDAM: Electric cars, meet your competition. Electric boats are on the way.
Amsterdam didn’t have to look very far when searching for a way to ease traffic on its congested streets. The Dutch capital’s canals were used for transport long before cars and trucks powered by polluting internal combustion engines began clogging its narrow roads.
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An electric boat steers close to a full-size replica of the 18th century three-mast trading ship Amsterdam at the National Maritime Museum in Amsterdam. Already steeped in maritime history, the city’s more than 100 kilometers (60 miles) of waterways are to start hosting prototypes of futuristic boats – small, fully-autonomous electric vessels – to carry out tasks including transporting passengers and picking up garbage. — AP
The Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Metropolitan Solutions and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are collaborating on the Roboat project that aims to develop new ways of navigating the world’s waterways without a human hand at the wheel. — AP
Van Dijk, interviewed with an electric boat in the background in Amsterdam, said the technology is ‘very relevant in highly complex port operations, where you have a lot of vessels and a lot of ships and a lot of quays and piers’. — AP
An electric boat is lowered outside a workshop with a full-size replica of the 18th century three-mast trading ship Amsterdam at the National Maritime Museum in the background, in Amsterdam. — AP
The Roboats are steered remotely by a computer, which processes data from cameras and sensors that scan the areas around the vessel, detecting stationary and moving objects. — AP
An electric boat steers close to a full-size replica of the 18th century three-mast trading ship Amsterdam at the National Maritime Museum, in Amsterdam. — AP
