“We were able to achieve good results in difficult environments such as navigation in Kojima Bay with many shallow waters and complex waterways, the presence of aquaculture rafts and bottom trawls, and ships crossing the route,” Mitsunobu Kojima, Chairman and CEO of Ryobi Ferry’s parent company the Ryobi Group, said earlier this week.
“Japan has many remote islands, and it is expected that it will be difficult to maintain shipping routes due to a shortage of sailors and a decrease in islanders. The evolution of autonomous navigation technology is an important initiative that is essential to solving this problem.”
AloJapan.com