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