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