Germany's new floating lab will stress-test hydrogen power and self-driving ships at sea

Germany's new floating lab will stress-test hydrogen power and self-driving ships at sea

A floating lab is just what it might take to shake up global shipping. Germany is betting it could help move cleaner maritime technology out of the prototype stage and into the real world much faster, as Brightcast reported. What's happening? The German Aerospace Center, or DLR, officially laid the keel for MODULARIS, a 48-meter (~157 feet) research vessel designed to serve as a test platform for advanced maritime systems, per Brightcast. Rather…