The driverless car revolution may not quite be upon us - but researchers are already planning to bring driverless boats to a famous canal city.
With 165 canals running to a combined length of more than 62 miles (100km), Amsterdam is seen as the perfect place to develop and test autonomous floating vehicles known as "roboats".
The Amsterdam Institute for Metropolitan Solutions (AMS) is working with Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Delft University of Technology and Wageningen University and Research on a five-year, £21.4m project.
They hope to have a working prototype on the water in 2017.
Carlo Ratti, principal investigator at MIT, said: "Imagine a fleet of autonomous boats for the transportation of goods and people.
"But also think of dynamic and temporary floating infrastructure like on-demand bridges and stages, that can be assembled or disassembled in a matter of hours."
The boats will also gather environmental data on water or air quality and noise - and help clear the Dutch capital's waterways of the more than 12,000 bicycles a year that end up in the canals.
The research team hopes the project will be useful for coastal cities and contribute to the developing field of driverless transport.
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