US Navy's First Autonomous Swarmboats Are Controlled with Ubuntu

Oct 10, 2014, 07:00 (3 Talkback[s])
(Other stories by Silviu Stahie)

The US Navy has unveiled a new type of autonomous vehicles, called Swarmboats. These are actually small patrol boats or unmanned surface vehicles (USV) and they seem to be controlled by using a weird combination of Windows 7 and Ubuntu.