Microtransat robot sailing takes to the high seas this fall
By Ryan Block 
posted May 11th 2008 6:18PM
posted May 11th 2008 6:18PM
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Roboats! HAHA!!!
(No, I'm serious. This is not your standard internet sarcasm. That's perfect!)
If current trends are any indication, the future will be full of autonomous electric vehicles. Awesome.
and no humans to ride in them
I, for one, welcome our sea-faring sailbot overlords.
The only question remaining: Can the get to the fucking island and end the show???
*bum bada bish*
Smart sailing software sounds really cool. I wonder if it they'll be able to figure out a way to work with the chute at 25 knots on the lee.
It's a gadget website dude, no need to flex your sailing ePenis here...
Propelled by artificial intelligence...
That'd be artificial psychokinesis?
Expect 8th-page articles on unmanned ghost ship sightings to start appearing in the papers soon.
Arrr I'm working on autonomous pirates.
For a race, that boat is not going to be very fast without a jib or spinnaker, but I guess that have to keep it as simple as possible for the robotic control.
I'm gonna basically repeat Campbell's comment here:
It's a gadget website, we don't need you to comment just to show everyone you know about sailing.
@kr - he's correct.. without a jib, this thing is going to be hamstrung in a race... no need to try and look like a clueless geek with no knowledge of the world about him other than that he absorbs through blogs on his mother's computer, get outside and see the fucking world.
@fragge
Yeah, it'll be slow. But it's racing against other APK sailboats, so, unless the other teams can figure out the added complexity, it may not be at a disadvantage.
Enter the crytoplasmic comforts of a small confinement inside a wobbly seanse and wake up in the future, or err...
This bloat does not flote.
This seems a little less challenging than the project that was done in the desert. How many sensors do you need to avoid all the obstacles you may encounter in the middle of the ocean. :P
Clearly you have never sailed...driving's a little bit easier. You know, the road doesn't move when you're driving, for one.
It's no Horatio Hornblower
This is terrible for the environment.
Imagine of the computer gets sea sick,
It will be throwing up silicon with little squares of orange nano-particles overt the side…
that made me lol. thank you
Well, from what I heard about the self-driving cars, none could even make it across the finish line. How well are self-driving boats going to do?
actually a few cars have finished it. the first race none of them did but the latest one the VW finished first.
Computer gets seasick - atonomous pirates - yuk yuk
Actually, one could easily rig a self-tailing jib. There ARE 'one meter'
radio controlled sailboats already out there.
Campbell and kr - back to your sandboxes - it's past your bedtime.
DW
Now you guys have to read "I, rowboat", a neat story by Cory Doctorow. http://www.flurb.net/1/doctorow.htm