What do you get when you cross two high-tech, multimillion-dollar racing yachts with an Azimut 68 backing between them without a captain? A potential disaster. Unless, of course, the yacht is the ...

Live demo of a self-docking yacht by Volvo Penta We’re already working on self-parking cars, so why not take things a step further and investigate self-parking boats? Of course, the correct vernacular ...

The sun glinted off the water in Gothenburg, Sweden, as Volvo Penta’s self-docking yacht backed slowly toward a waiting crowd. The lustrous leather steering wheel spun all on its own. Nervous sailors ...

Penta, the maritime subsidiary of Volvo, has announced the commercial arrival of its autonomous boat docking system. Integrated Assisted Docking (AD) is designed to handle the complicated mess of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Several years ago, at the Volvo Ocean Race in Gothenburg, Sweden, I watched as a 65-foot motoryacht backed into a slip between two ...

Even if parking your yacht is the last thing you're worried abut, it's pretty cool to see the vessel wedge into a tight space on its own. Volvo Penta's self-docking technology did just that at a demo ...

Cars that park themselves can not only make parking mishaps a thing of the past, but they could also make maximum use of lot space. But the auto space isn't the only area where autonomous technology ...

Volvo Penta used the recent stopover of the Volvo Ocean Race in Gothenburg, Sweden, to unveil their new self-docking system. According to the company, the system works like this: First, as the boat ...

Parking a car can be tricky. Now imagine that car is 68 feet long, weighs 40 tons, and is prone to drift around on its own with the wind and water currents. That’s the challenge faced by many ...