| 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:\r |
| 6 | i \r |
| 7 | i > For the first time an autonomous sailing robot has completed\r |
| 8 | i the [1]Microtransat Challenge by [2]crossing the Atlantic from\r |
| 9 | i Newfoundland, Canada to Ireland . The Microtransat has been\r |
| 10 | i running since 2010 and has seen 23 previous entries all fail\r |
| 11 | i to make it across. The successful boat, [3]SB Met was built by\r |
| 12 | i the Norwegian company [4]Offshore Sensing AS and is only 2\r |
| 13 | i metres (6.5 ft) long. It completed the crossing on August\r |
| 14 | i 26th, 79 days and 5000 km (3100 miles) of sailing after\r |
| 15 | i departing Newfoundland on June 7th.\r |
| 16 | i \r |
| 17 | i Further reading: [5]A Fleet of Sailing Robots Sets Out To\r |
| 18 | i Quantify the Oceans .\r |
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| 22 | i [1] https://www.microtransat.org/\r |
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| 24 | i [2] https://www.apnews.com/f6d0e2a099684468873ab48966590ada\r |
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| 26 | i [3] https://www.microtransat.org/2018_sailbuoy_boat.php\r |
| 27 | i \r |
| 28 | i [4] http://sailbuoy.no/\r |
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| 30 | i [5] https://science.slashdot.org/story/18/05/16/228245/a-fleet-\r |
| 31 | i of-sailing-robots-sets-out-to-quantify-the-oceans\r |
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