“This is an incredibly complex robotics challenge,” explains Ken Stafford, director of the WPI Robotics Resource Center and longtime sailor. “You need to be both a sailor and a roboticist to do this.” Stafford and WPI’s robotics team are up to the challenge: they’ll be competing at SailBot 2017 next week in Annapolis, Maryland. http://wpi.today/sailbot-fb | WPI Robotics | Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI)