An anonymous reader writes:

> 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.

Further reading: [5]A Fleet of Sailing Robots Sets Out To Quantify the Oceans .



[1] https://www.microtransat.org/

[2] https://www.apnews.com/f6d0e2a099684468873ab48966590ada

[3] https://www.microtransat.org/2018_sailbuoy_boat.php

[4] http://sailbuoy.no/

[5] https://science.slashdot.org/story/18/05/16/228245/a-fleet-of-sailing-robots-sets-out-to-quantify-the-oceans