Jan Scholtens fulfilled different roles in the Aquabots project. First as a student, but after graduating he decided to keep working on small unmanned vessels and related innovations as an independent engineer.

His company, Innoship Engineering, works together with other small companies as well as students to create a future in which more data is gathered on the waterways.


The Aquabots and other aquatic drones during the opening of the open water maritime drone test facility ‘Dronehaven’ at the RDM, 3 September 2016 (by Roy Borghouts Fotografie).

For SWZ|Maritime's "The Up and Coming" special, he wrote an article about his career and the Aquabots project.

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Picture (top): Jan Scholtens working on an Aquabot (by VOOG).