BBC Newsround｜数百英里外远程控制的机器人飞船

Robotic ships being remotely controlled from hundreds of miles away｜Newsround
Have you ever played a video game simulator where you get to control a train, plane or boat?
您是否玩过可以控制火车、飞机或船只的视频游戏模拟器？
Well, what if we told you that could be real life?
好吧，如果我们告诉你这可能是现实生活呢？
Here's BBC's science editor Rebecca Murrell with more.
英国广播公司(BBC)科学编辑丽贝卡:默雷尔(Rebecca Murrell)为您带来更多精彩报道。
What you're looking at is a vision of the future.
你所看到的是未来的愿景。
A ship that needs only a few people on board to sail it and that can be controlled from anywhere in the world.
这艘船只需要船上几个人就可以航行，并且可以在世界任何地方进行控制。
The vessel's been put through its paces in a Norwegian fjord.
该船已在挪威峡湾进行了测试。
The company behind this, Ocean Infinity, are building a fleet of 23 of these
这背后的公司 Ocean Infinity 正在建造一支由 23 艘这样的船组成的舰队。
We fitted this vessel with extra sensors, extra servers, extra cabling, extra
information systems.
我们为这艘船安装了额外的传感器、额外的服务器、额外的电缆、额外的信息系统。
This is definitely going to be a revolution.
这绝对将是一场革命。
There's almost no part of our operation which is going to be untouched by our
approach to making it more robotic.
我们的操作几乎没有一个部分不会受到我们使其更加机器人化的方法的影响。
This ship is 78 metres long and usually a vessel like this would have a crew of 40 or 50 people, but this is operating with just 16. Instead, some of the jobs are being cartied out by a crew more than 700 miles away.
这艘船长 78 米，通常这样的船有 40 或 50 名船员，但这艘船只有 16 人。相反，一些工作是由 700 多英里外的船员执行的。
They're in a remote control centre, which in this case is in Southampton.
他们位于远程控制中心，在本例中位于南安普敦。
And this is that control room.
这就是那个控制室。
Everything you can see from on board the ship, you can see here on these screens.
您在船上能看到的一切，都可以在这些屏幕上看到。
Eventually, even the captain could be here, in charge of multiple ships in oceans around the world.
最终，连船长也可以在这里，负责管理世界各地海洋中的多艘船只。
For now, though, it's tasks like launching underwater robots.
不过，目前的任务是发射水下机器人。
You can do almost everything that you do on the vessel.
您几乎可以做船上能做的所有事情。
You can move around, you can steer it, you can have cameras, you can see the cameras here.
你可以四处走动，你可以驾驶它，你可以有摄像头，你可以在这里看到摄像头。
Some vessels are sailing with no one on board at all.
有些船只正在航行，船上根本没有人。
This boat is being tested in Plymouth Sound and its crew is in an office in Aberdeen.
这艘船正在普利茅斯湾进行测试，船员们在阿伯丁的一间办公室里。
Could you show us how you can control it from here?
您能向我们展示如何从这里控制它吗？
Like, could we do a figure of eight or something like that?
比如，我们可以做一个八字形或类似的东西吗？
Yeah, let's go for figure eight.
是的，我们来看看图八。
So now I'm moving forward.
所以现在我正在前进。
I send in command going forward.
我发出前进的命令。
The captain has precise control of the boat in real time.
船长可以实时精确控制船只。
That looks pretty good to me.
这对我来说看起来不错。
It's definitely innate.
这绝对是与生俱来的。
The technology is moving rapidly, but experts say the regulations now need to catch up to make sure these new-style vessels are safe at sea, because the next wave of shipping is already here.
该技术正在迅速发展，但专家表示，法规现在需要跟上，以确保这些新型船舶在海上安全，因为下一波航运已经到来。

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