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		</div><p>A crewless robotic boat retracing the 1620 sea voyage of the Mayflower has landed near Plymouth Rock.</p>
<p>The sleek Mayflower Autonomous Ship was met by an escort boat as it approached the Massachusetts shoreline on Thursday, more than 400 years after its namesake’s historic journey from England.</p>
<p>It was towed into Plymouth Harbour – per US Coast Guard rules for crewless vessels – and docked near a replica of the original Mayflower that brought the Pilgrims to America.</p>
<p>Piloted by artificial intelligence technology, the 50-foot trimaran did not have a captain, navigator or any humans on board.</p>
<p>The solar-powered ship’s first attempt to cross the Atlantic in 2021 was beset with technical problems, forcing it back to its home port of Plymouth, England.\</p>
<p>It set off from the English coast again in April but mechanical difficulties diverted it to Portugal’s Azores islands and then to Canada.</p>
<p>“When you don’t have anybody onboard, you obviously can’t do the mechanical, physical fixes that are needed,” said Rob High, a software executive at IBM helping to work on the project. “That’s also part of the learning process.”</p>
<p>On Monday, it departed Halifax, Nova Scotia for a successful four-day journey to Plymouth Harbour.</p>
<p>Non-profit marine research organisation ProMare worked with IBM to build the ship and has been using it to collect data about whales, microplastics pollution and for other scientific research.</p>
<p>Small autonomous experimental vessels have crossed the Atlantic before but researchers describe it as the first ship of its size to do so.</p>
<p>The voyage’s completion “means we can start analysing data from the ship’s journey” and dig into the AI system’s performance, Mr High said.</p>
<p>He said the prospect of such crewless vessels navigating the seas on a continuous basis will make it easier to collect “all the kinds of things that marine scientists care about”.</p>
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