Robot Ship Sets Seagoing Record
February 20, 2019
An experimental ship called Sea Hunter recently set a record by traveling from California to Hawaii and back again—with no humans on board to guide its way. Being developed for the US Navy to carry out “dull, dirty, or dangerous” missions such as submarine hunting, clearing mines, and long-term surveillance, it is among what a security analyst described in Issues as a new generation of surface and underwater robotic vessels designed to meet changing maritime warfare challenges.