We have the whole day in the mouth. If a product has no AI, it is not fashionable, and despite loud recent failures, it seems that artificial intelligence has come to stay and conquer it practically everything. A segment in which it has a lot of potential is to improve the autonomous capacities of vehicles, especially in countries in which human labor is increasingly scarce.
This is the case of South Korea, which is promoting autonomous ships to the top of AI to replace the lack of crew. But there are already those who look with sweet eyes thinking about applications in the military industry: United States.
Samsung with Ia. Now in ships. The South Korean national pride is Samsung, a company that recently presented its Galaxy S25 smartphones and that has been uploaded in the artificial intelligence ship for years. Samsung is a giant company that makes consumption technology much more. Both the main company and its subsidiaries have businesses in sectors such as construction or biotechnology, and one of them specializes in ships.
Samsung Heavy Industries, or SHI, is one of the three large ship builders in the world, focusing on the construction of ships for special tasks such as ultragrandes ships, very specific transport ships, offshore platforms and navigation systems. One of the last projects in which it is involved is that of construction with ships equipped with autonomous navigation system thanks to AI.
Ok, catamaran! Conducts. As we can read in Nikkei Asia, in November last year, Shi tried a 12 -meter -long catamaran on Geoje island, south of South Korea. This ship could transport 12 people and its crew had a task: give voice orders to the ship. After scoring the route, he was dedicated to following the ‘line of points’ and details such as speed or obstacles were shown in real time on a screen.
From the control center you can monitor your parameters thanks to the installed cameras, as well as make adjustments, but the AI developed by sister Samsung Electronics is the captain of the ship.
Government facilities. A wall against which there were companies like Samsung or Hyundai when trying autonomous vessels is the law. According to the Asian media, the regulations made it difficult for companies real.
The reasons were not specified, but having South Korea one of the most alarming demographic situations on the planet and facing -such as Japan -, to the lack of workers in certain positions, an autonomous or semi -autonomo vehicle sounds like a good idea to alleviate the situation . Realizing Japan again, we have already seen even robots with chainsaws to adapt the train tracks.
¡Taxi! We mentioned Hyundai, since it is another of the great South Korean and, through Hyundai Heavy Industries, this year they will test an autonomous aquatic taxi in Busán. The idea is that the passenger introduces the destination, at which time the system will look for the ideal route and begin to travel it. Apart from the systems to recognize the environment thanks to 3D cameras, the idea is that you go accurately at the destination dock, ready to release a passenger and receive another.
Returning to Samsung, the next steps of this project include tests to avoid collisions, as well as improve satellite communication to be able to develop this pilot as something on a large scale. Satellite communication is another technologies that seem important to the company.
The US looks carefully. Samsung has a key advantage: you can design and build these ships from scratch, integrating its own autonomous navigation technology. That is, with their naval experience, they can design a ship from scratch that includes the autonomous navigation systems that they provide from Samsung Electronics, being a more accurate solution than to place those navigation systems on a ship that is not specifically designed for it .
And who is already looking closely at these advances is the United States, but not any aquatic taxi department, but the Department of Defense. In a Trump al call, now dismissed, South Korean president Yoon Yeol, President Electro recognized South Korea’s capacity in the construction and maintenance of ships.
Clave. South Korean ports are becoming a key to the US presence in the South China Sea and local media claim that contracts between South Korean and US companies have increased recently. It is a fundamental strategic enclave, especially in a scenario in which China is performing maneuvers that its adversaries watch closely.
Beyond this, and seeing that Samsung is not the only one who is betting on autonomous ships, it is expected that we see a flourish of this implementation of AI in this type of vehicles in the coming months.
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