sending commands via satellite links. We followed a robot boat as it motored out of Plymouth Harbour into the English Channel.

The mission was part-funded by the European Space Agency. Robot boats promise a dramatic change in the way we work at sea. Already, many of the big survey companies that run traditional crewed ...

Anahita Laverack moved to Wales from London to trial a 1.2m (3.9ft) prototype called Oshen A self-sailing robot boat that can predict ... come from the European Space Agency.