Take a look at this! A crewless robotic boat tried to retrace the voyage of the Mayflower — but landed this time in Canada instead of the Massachusetts coast where its namesake landed more than 400 years ago.
The sleek autonomous trimaran docked in Halifax, Nova Scotia, on Sunday, after more than five weeks crossing the Atlantic Ocean from England, according to tech company IBM, which helped build it.
“The technology that makes up the autonomous system worked perfectly, flawlessly,” said Rob High, an IBM computing executive involved in the project. “Mechanically, we did run into problems.”, forcing the boat to return to its home port of Plymouth, England.It set off again from England nearly a year later on April 27, bound for Virginia — but a generator problem diverted it to Portugal's Azores islands, where a team member flew in to perform emergency repairs.
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