Greener Oceans
1 Intelligent robots identify hot spots for waste, then vacuum-clean the ocean floor
More than 90% of plastic waste in the oceans accumulates on the ocean floor. A system of artificially intelligent robots are set to clean up our mess.
A group of scientists from technical research institutions across Europe have joined forces in the SeaClear project, which has the aim of removing plastic waste from the ocean floor in a new and efficient way. Cleaning up the ocean floor is normally a manual process for human beings, but SeaClear is working on a system by which we can task autonomous robots with the hard work.
The system consists of a mothership that floats on the surface acting as a small command centre, generating electricity and providing computer power for the other robots. It also hosts a drone which can fly in the sky above the mothership, equipped with cameras to analyse the ocean surface, mapping out heavy concentrations of plastic waste. Under
