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+0Robot Boat Sails Into History By Finishing Atlantic Crossing (apnews.com) null/SLASHDOT/0102637868 70\r
+i Thursday September 06, 2018 @11:30PM (msmash)\r
+i from the impressive-feat dept.\r
+i\r
+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\r