Thursday September 06, 2018 @11:30PM (msmash)\r
from the impressive-feat dept.\r
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+ o Reference: 0102637868\r
o News link: https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/18/09/06/1719243/robot-boat-sails-into-history-by-finishing-atlantic-crossing\r
o Source link: https://www.apnews.com/f6d0e2a099684468873ab48966590ada\r
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- An anonymous reader writes: For the first time an autonomous\r
- sailing robot has completed the Microtransat Challenge by\r
- crossing the Atlantic from Newfoundland, Canada to Ireland.\r
- The Microtransat has been running since 2010 and has seen 23\r
- previous entries all fail to make it across. The successful\r
- boat, SB Met was built by the Norwegian company Offshore\r
- Sensing AS and is only 2 metres (6.5 ft) long. It completed\r
- the crossing on August 26th, 79 days and 5000 km (3100 miles)\r
- of sailing after departing Newfoundland on June 7th. Further\r
- reading: A Fleet of Sailing Robots Sets Out To Quantify the\r
- Oceans.\r
+ An anonymous reader writes:\r
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+ > For the first time an autonomous sailing robot has completed\r
+ the [1]Microtransat Challenge by [2]crossing the Atlantic from\r
+ Newfoundland, Canada to Ireland . The Microtransat has been\r
+ running since 2010 and has seen 23 previous entries all fail\r
+ to make it across. The successful boat, [3]SB Met was built by\r
+ the Norwegian company [4]Offshore Sensing AS and is only 2\r
+ metres (6.5 ft) long. It completed the crossing on August\r
+ 26th, 79 days and 5000 km (3100 miles) of sailing after\r
+ departing Newfoundland on June 7th.\r
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+ Further reading: [5]A Fleet of Sailing Robots Sets Out To\r
+ Quantify the Oceans .\r
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+ [1] https://www.microtransat.org/\r
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+ [2] https://www.apnews.com/f6d0e2a099684468873ab48966590ada\r
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+ [3] https://www.microtransat.org/2018_sailbuoy_boat.php\r
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+ [4] http://sailbuoy.no/\r
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+ [5] https://science.slashdot.org/story/18/05/16/228245/a-fleet-\r
+ of-sailing-robots-sets-out-to-quantify-the-oceans\r
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