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Sailbot arrives in NFLD, prepares for trans-Atlantic crossing

Sailbot arrives in NFLD, prepares for trans-Atlantic crossing

After three years of hard work, the UBC Sailbot team is almost ready to send their boat across the Atlantic, in what will be the first ever trans-Atlantic journey by an autonomous sailboat. Named Ada, after Ada Lovelace, the five-metre vessel was completely designed and built by UBC students in Vancouver, where she underwent extensive […]