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17 An anonymous reader writes:
<br/><br/>> For the first time an autonomous sailing robot has completed the [
1]Microtransat Challenge by [
2]crossing the Atlantic from Newfoundland, Canada to Ireland . The Microtransat has been running since
2010 and has seen
23 previous entries all fail to make it across. The successful boat, [
3]SB Met was built by the Norwegian company [
4]Offshore Sensing AS and is only
2 metres (
6.5 ft) long. It completed the crossing on August
26th,
79 days and
5000 km (
3100 miles) of sailing after departing Newfoundland on June
7th.
<br/><br/>Further reading: [
5]A Fleet of Sailing Robots Sets Out To Quantify the Oceans .
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1] https://www.microtransat.org/
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2] https://www.apnews.com/f6d0e2a099684468873ab48966590ada
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3] https://www.microtransat.org/
2018_sailbuoy_boat.php
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4] http://sailbuoy.no/
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5] https://science.slashdot.org/story/
18/
05/
16/
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