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1 | 0Robot Boat Sails Into History By Finishing Atlantic Crossing (apnews.com) null/SLASHDOT/0102637868 70\r |
2 | i Thursday September 06, 2018 @11:30PM (msmash)\r | |
3 | i from the impressive-feat dept.\r | |
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5 | i An anonymous reader writes:\r |
6 | i \r | |
7 | i > For the first time an autonomous sailing robot has completed\r | |
8 | i the [1]Microtransat Challenge by [2]crossing the Atlantic from\r | |
9 | i Newfoundland, Canada to Ireland . The Microtransat has been\r | |
10 | i running since 2010 and has seen 23 previous entries all fail\r | |
11 | i to make it across. The successful boat, [3]SB Met was built by\r | |
12 | i the Norwegian company [4]Offshore Sensing AS and is only 2\r | |
13 | i metres (6.5 ft) long. It completed the crossing on August\r | |
14 | i 26th, 79 days and 5000 km (3100 miles) of sailing after\r | |
15 | i departing Newfoundland on June 7th.\r | |
16 | i \r | |
17 | i Further reading: [5]A Fleet of Sailing Robots Sets Out To\r | |
18 | i Quantify the Oceans .\r | |
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22 | i [1] https://www.microtransat.org/\r | |
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24 | i [2] https://www.apnews.com/f6d0e2a099684468873ab48966590ada\r | |
25 | i \r | |
26 | i [3] https://www.microtransat.org/2018_sailbuoy_boat.php\r | |
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28 | i [4] http://sailbuoy.no/\r | |
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30 | i [5] https://science.slashdot.org/story/18/05/16/228245/a-fleet-\r | |
31 | i of-sailing-robots-sets-out-to-quantify-the-oceans\r | |
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