Similar Events
- The Zero Handed Transatlantic Race - A similar competition proposed in 1988, but which never appears to have taken place.
- The Autonomous Model Yacht Racing Competition - Another competition which attempted to cross the Pacific Ocean in 2004.
- The Sailbot Competition - A competition similar to the Microtransat which took place in Canada in 2006.
- Sailbot 2009 - Hosted by the US Naval Academy.
- The World Robotic Sailing Championship 2008 - Another similar competition which took place in Austria in May 2008, hosted by the INNOC Microtransat team.
- The 2nd World Robotic Sailing Championships were organised by the University of Porto and took place in Matosinhos, Portugal in July 2009.
- The 3rd World Robotic Sailing Championships and Sailbot 2010 are to be hosted by Queens University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada in June 2010.
Microtransat on Social Networks and Blogs
- Breizh Spirit's Facebook Page (In French)
- Pinta's Blog
- Facebook page for Pinta the only robot to enter the 2010 Microtransat.
- Twitter feed for Pinta (posts are identical to those on the Facebook page)
- ASV Roboat's Facebook Page
Team Pages
Links to pages by teams who are building sailing robots and who have shown interest in the Microtransat.
- Aberystwyth University, Wales , United Kingdom
- Institut Supérieure de l'Aéronautique et de l'Espace (ISAE), Tolouse, France
- The Austrian Association for Innovative Computer Science (INNOC), Vienna, Austria
- University of Porto, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
- École nationale supérieure de techniques avancées Bretange (ENSTA-Bretagne), Brest, France
- GPSS and Team Joker, Ascot, United Kingdom
- Team Robotboat, Maryland, USA
- The University of Lubeck, Germany
- The Portencross Boys, Portencross near Glasgow, Scotland
- Students Sail Autonomously, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
- Windlet, Anacortes, Washington, USA
- The Dutch Robotic Sailing Team, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
- The US Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland, USA
- The Magellan Machine, Stockholm, Sweden
- Queens University Mostly Autonomous Sailboat Team, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
- SPIN, New Zealand
Media Coverage
Here are just a few of the articles which have been published about the Microtransat.
- CKWS Television
- Deutschlandfunk (In German)
- The Times
- Discovery Channel Canada (6 minute video,only viewable in Canada)
- BBC News (video available)
- The Register
- Aberystwyth University Press Release
- Linux Magazine (in German)
- Slashdot
- Heise Online (in German)
- New Scientist Technology Blog
- Yachts and Yachting
- Heise Online
