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| 12 | <h2><a href='0102637868.html'>Robot Boat Sails Into History By Finishing Atlantic Crossing (apnews.com)</a></h2> |
| 13 | <div class='details'>(Thursday September 06, 2018 @11:30PM (msmash) |
| 14 | from the impressive-feat dept.)</div> |
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| 17 | 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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