ROBOAT | MIT Senseable City Lab

Design Principals: Prof. Carlo Ratti, Prof. Daniela Rus, Prof. Andrew Whittle Project Team: Fábio Duarte, Ricardo Alvarez, Lenna Johnsen, Pietro Leoni, Luis Mateos, Wei Wang, Daniel Marshall, Waishan Qiu, Levent Ozruh Project Description: A joint project between Massachussets Institute of Technology’s Senseable City Lab and Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Metropolitan Solutions, Roboat is world’s first fleet of autonomous floating vessels. Designed for the canals of Amsterdam, the 5 year long research project investigates the ways in which self-driving technology could change our cities and their waterways. Above anything, Roboat is an adaptive, on-demand infrastructure, constantly in changing configuration to host a number of different programmes; from floating bridges and stages to waste collection, delivery of goods and last but not least the transportation of people in Amsterdam (i): Concept render (human transportation configuration.) (ii): Concept render (cargo configuration.) (All imagery are courtesy of MIT Senseable City Lab.)