DAY 8 23RD JUNE 2021 EIGHTH TRANSATLANTIC AUTONOMOUS UNMANNED RECORD ATTEMPT MAYFLOWER AI ARTIFICIALLY INTELLIGENT IBM MAS ROBOTIC SHIP

DAY 8 - TRANSATLANTIC ATTEMPT 23rd JUNE 2021

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8th DAY 23rd JUNE 2021 - The last recorded data is shown as 22nd June 2021. The difference being from yesterday that the trimaran appears to be heading back to Plymouth. If that is so, we hope the Mayflower is safe and may soon (don't rush things) be able to embark on a new mission.

MAYFLOWER PILGRIMS VOYAGE - MAS's direction of travel is the reverse of the Scout and Voyager autonomous Atlantic attempts that took advantage of trade winds. The Mayflower will be heading into prevailing winds. If sail powered, she would need to tack. But powered by a diesel engine, there is no need for that. Energy from nature is used to power the onboard AI and satellite communications. Any surplus could aid propulsion.

We are following this exciting scientific adventure, hoping that the all alloy Mayflower makes it from Plymouth in Devon, UK, to Plymouth, Massachusetts, in the USA without any technical hitches.

We will be reporting the facts with our own observations. You can find out more about progress on the official websites (urls below).

Following the seventh day of autonomous navigation, on the eighth day of the attempt to cross the Atlantic ocean the MAS 400 ........ We are looking forward to what happens on the ninth day ....

TRANSATLANTIC EVENT CALENDAR 2021

DAY/MONTH	POSITION	AVE SPEED	DIST COVERED
-	-	-	-
Launch 15 June 2021	Plymouth, Devon, UK	-	-
Day 1 16 June 2021	English Channel	-	-
Day 2 17 June 2021	-	Mission aborted	-
Day 3 18 June 2021	Washington Post	Drifting	-
Day 4 19 June 2021	-	-	-
Day 5 20 June 2021	-	-	-
Day 6 21 June 2021	-	-	-
Day 7 22 June 2021	Atlantic	Stalled	-
Day 8 23 June 2021	Atlantic (English Channel)	No data recorded	-
Day 9 24 June 2021	-	-	-
Day 10 25 June 2021	-	-	-
Day 11 26 June 2021	-	-	-
Day 12 27 June 2021	-	-	-
Day 13 28 June 2021	-	-	-
Day 14 29 June 2021	-	-	-
Day 15 30 June 2021	-	-	-
Day 16 1 July 2021	-	-	-
Day 17 2 July 2021	-	-	-
Day 18 3 July 2021	-	-	-
Day 19 4 July 2021	-	-	-
Day 20 5 July 2021	-	-	-
Day 21 6 July 2021	-	-	-
Arrival July 2021	Plymouth, Ma, USA	-	-

The IBM Mayflower MAS 400 is an autonomous trimaran powered by a diesel engine, piloted by a solar powered artificially intelligent computer system developed by IBM called 'AI Captain.'

JOURNEY TIME

The original wooden 30-meter Mayflower took 66 days to carry the Pilgrims, Founding Fathers from the U.K. to what is now the U.S. The voyage would have involved a lot of tacking, because sailing ships cannot sail directly into the wind. But the new sail-less aluminium boat should take two to three weeks (14-21 days) depending on how strong the prevailing trade winds are.

LINKS & CONTACTS

https://mas400.com/

http://www.promare.org/projects/
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IBM'S ATTEMPT TO SET AN AUTONOMOUS UNMANNED RECORD ACROSS THE ATLANTIC OCEAN IN THE MAYFLOWER AI SHIP