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1 | 0Robot Boat Sails Into History By Finishing Atlantic Crossing (apnews.com) null/SLASHDOT/0102637868 70\r |
2 | i Thursday September 06, 2018 @11:30PM (msmash)\r | |
3 | i from the impressive-feat dept.\r | |
4 | i\r | |
5 | i An anonymous reader writes: For the first time an autonomous\r | |
6 | i sailing robot has completed the Microtransat Challenge by\r | |
7 | i crossing the Atlantic from Newfoundland, Canada to Ireland.\r | |
8 | i The Microtransat has been running since 2010 and has seen 23\r | |
9 | i previous entries all fail to make it across. The successful\r | |
10 | i boat, SB Met was built by the Norwegian company Offshore\r | |
11 | i Sensing AS and is only 2 metres (6.5 ft) long. It completed\r | |
12 | i the crossing on August 26th, 79 days and 5000 km (3100 miles)\r | |
13 | i of sailing after departing Newfoundland on June 7th. Further\r | |
14 | i reading: A Fleet of Sailing Robots Sets Out To Quantify the\r | |
15 | i Oceans.\r | |
16 | i\r |