Tela demonstrated a radio-controlled boat to transform naval warfare. Ukraine's new Katran, a drone boat armed with torpedoes ...

A model of Tesla's remote-controlled boat housed at the Tesla Museum in Belgrade, Yugoslavia.

Typically in the RC community, radio ... The boat uses compressed air for propulsion, stored in a battery of four soda bottles, pressurized to 6 bar. The compressed air is used to drive a Tesla ...

Tesla described his radio-controlled boat as the first "teleautomaton," the first of many robots that would serve humankind. In 1898, an astonished group of potential investors watched Tesla ...