The engineering challenges of an autonomous ship | Rylan Hamilton | TEDxBoston

[applause] A couple years ago, we made a bet and we said that the Navy will need autonomous ships that can cross open oceans and carry the most important payloads. And at the time, for good reasons, there's a lot of focus on what I call the small drone boat. So like, you know, small attitable, lowcost, inspired by a lot of things happening in Ukraine in the Black Sea. But I said, you know, our navy is a blue water navy. AC operates across all the world's oceans and needs, you know, we need vessels that are ...