Chickity Check It! “MIT CSAIL upgrades its self-driving boats to actually transport passengers”

MIT CSAIL upgrades its self-driving boats to actually transport passengers

By Rowan Walrath – Inno Associate EditorOctober 26, 2020, 02:40pm EDT


It’s two meters long, it drives itself, and is capable of carrying passengers. Meet the “Roboat II,” the second iteration of an autonomous boat developed by researchers at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and the Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Metropolitan Solutions.

The first Roboat floated onto the scene four years ago — a smaller version of the new Roboat II that MIT CSAIL announced on Monday. The team is now working on another, even larger vessel with the aim of carrying four to six people.

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