1 0Robot Boat Sails Into History By Finishing Atlantic Crossing (apnews.com) null/SLASHDOT/0102637868 70
2 i Thursday September 06, 2018 @11:30PM (msmash)
3 i from the impressive-feat dept.
5 i An anonymous reader writes:
7 i > For the first time an autonomous sailing robot has completed
8 i the [1]Microtransat Challenge by [2]crossing the Atlantic from
9 i Newfoundland, Canada to Ireland . The Microtransat has been
10 i running since 2010 and has seen 23 previous entries all fail
11 i to make it across. The successful boat, [3]SB Met was built by
12 i the Norwegian company [4]Offshore Sensing AS and is only 2
13 i metres (6.5 ft) long. It completed the crossing on August
14 i 26th, 79 days and 5000 km (3100 miles) of sailing after
15 i departing Newfoundland on June 7th.
17 i Further reading: [5]A Fleet of Sailing Robots Sets Out To
18 i Quantify the Oceans .
22 i [1] https://www.microtransat.org/
24 i [2] https://www.apnews.com/f6d0e2a099684468873ab48966590ada
26 i [3] https://www.microtransat.org/2018_sailbuoy_boat.php
28 i [4] http://sailbuoy.no/
30 i [5] https://science.slashdot.org/story/18/05/16/228245/a-fleet-
31 i of-sailing-robots-sets-out-to-quantify-the-oceans