All Articles in Maritime Autonomy

We caught up with Chris Shepherd, Autonomy Technology Centre Director at Thales ahead of the Combined Naval Event (Farnborough) to hear about his latest thoughts on maritime autonomy…

From maintenance drones in offshore windfarms to unmanned cargo vessels, autonomy offers huge potential benefits to the maritime sector…

Thales brings all this learning together in PathMaster, a complete approach designed to help customers cut through the complexity of unmanned mine warfare and explore the solutions that meet their future MCM needs and budgets. ...

Few of us will ever create something of lasting international importance. Senior Systems Engineer Neil Coleman, the trials and acceptance lead for a four-year project to develop the world’s first unmanned autonomous mine countermeasures solution, is one of the few… ...

Machines that detect when their human operators tire and need a cup of coffee could be closer than we think, thanks to a funding partnership between Thales and the University of South Australia (UniSA)…

Earlier this year, Thales and the University of Southampton announced they had formed a major partnership to collaborate in the research and development of the next generation of maritime autonomous systems. Ten months in we have caught up with Professor Stephen Turnoc...

Autonomous technology has the potential to transform the maritime sector, from commerce to warfare.

Recognising the clear alignment of their objectives, in 2015, France and the UK fired the starting gun to embrace a new, unprecedented concept of operations: the Maritime Mine Countermeasures (MMCM) Programme. The ambition?   By 2020, to be operating a sophis...

Thales and Steller Systems have launched a new concept in warship design at DSEI, offering an evolutionary link from manned warships, through lean-manning, to a fully autonomous platform.

Thales is to deliver a keynote speech at a prestigious global Defence and Security exhibition on applying maritime autonomy to real world operations…