ZÜRICH, Sep 30, 2026 — The Turing Registry this week licensed its 11,000th autonomous system, an autonomous ferry service operating in Vancouver harbor. The milestone comes twenty-three years after the Registry opened with forty-one voluntary filings.
Every licensed system is listed publicly with the organization responsible for it, the domain in which it is permitted to act and a named human contact who answers when something goes wrong. Forty-one jurisdictions now recognize a Registry license in law, up from thirty-four a year ago.
Registration remains free. So far this year, the Registry has received 1,640 new filings, approved 1,402 and revoked ten licenses after public investigations.
“Eleven thousand systems is a big number, but the number that matters is one: one human being, with a name, for every system. That is what makes the Registry work.”
About Frothly
Frothly is an independent, not-for-profit research institute founded in San Francisco in 1984. It studies the systems that increasingly think, remember and decide on our behalf, and builds public infrastructure to keep them accountable, including the Turing Registry, the Glossia protocol and the Lazarus archive. Frothly holds no shares, sells no products and accepts no funding with conditions on its findings.