Rethinking the Mayflower: How I Came to Build an Autonomous Ship to Cross the Atlantic - THINK Blog

To cross the Atlantic with an unmanned, autonomous ship will push technology to its limits. Like the Mayflower's 101 passengers in 1620, we'll also need a lot of help and some good luck. I grew up in Boston, Massachusetts. I spent a lot of time messing around in the ocean, swimming and diving. Unlike my friends and brothers, I preferred looking at the fish to eating them.