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- An anonymous reader writes: For the first time an autonomous sailing robot has completed the Microtransat Challenge by 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, SB Met was built by the Norwegian company 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. Further reading: A Fleet of Sailing Robots Sets Out To Quantify the Oceans.
+ 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 .<br/><br/><br/><br/>[1] https://www.microtransat.org/<br/><br/>[2] https://www.apnews.com/f6d0e2a099684468873ab48966590ada<br/><br/>[3] https://www.microtransat.org/2018_sailbuoy_boat.php<br/><br/>[4] http://sailbuoy.no/<br/><br/>[5] https://science.slashdot.org/story/18/05/16/228245/a-fleet-of-sailing-robots-sets-out-to-quantify-the-oceans
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