Samsung Heavy Industries announced that it has succeeded in remotely and autonomously operating an actual ship measuring 38 meters long and weighing 300 tons off the sea near the Geoje Shipyard.
This demonstration was held simultaneously at the Geoje Shipyard and the remote control center installed at the Daejeon Marine Research Center, 250 km away.
Samsung Heavy Industries succeeded in demonstrating it by installing the SAS (Samsung Autonomous Ship), the first self-developed remote autonomous navigation system in the shipbuilding industry, on the actual tow vessel’SAMSUNG T-8′.