Rolls-Royce's Future: A Fleet Of Drone Ships Controlled By Augmented Reality

The company also believes that autonomous ships will be appearing in service within just 10 years. Speaking about these innovations Oskar Levander, Rolls-Royce, Vice President of Innovation – Marine, said: "This is happening. The technologies needed to make remote and autonomous ships a reality exist." "The AAWA project is testing sensor arrays in a range of operating and climatic conditions in Finland and has created a simulated autonomous ship control system which allows the behaviour of the complete communication system to be explored. We will see a remote controlled ship in commercial use by the end of the decade."