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17 An anonymous reader writes: For the first time an autonomous sailing robot has completed the Microtransat Challenge by 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, SB Met was built by the Norwegian company 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. Further reading: A Fleet of Sailing Robots Sets Out To Quantify the Oceans.