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Autonomous Underwater Waste Collection Could Soon Be a Reality

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Marine litter is a major environmental problem around the world. As part of the EU project SEACLEAR, a research team at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has now developed an autonomous diving robot that can detect and retrieve litter. It uses an AI system to analyze objects with ultrasound and cameras, picks them up and brings them to the surface. The autonomous underwater waste collection system demonstrated its capabilities for the fir…

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How a high-tech robot fishes waste from the seas: TUM shows how AI, underwater robots and drones could keep our ports clean. The article How a diving robot fishes waste from the oceans first appeared on ingenieur.de - Jobbörse und Nachrichtenportal für Ingenieure.

·Düsseldorf, Germany
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TUM tells the garbage in ports the fight. A system of unmanned boat, underwater robots and drone autonomously detects garbage in the water and removes it.

·Germany
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Autonomous garbage collector: A new technology against polluted seas has completed its first test in the Mediterranean. An autonomous diving robot independently detects waste at the bottom of the sea and collects it using its gripping arms. An unmanned boat serves as a floating waste dump. In the port of Marseille, this AI-controlled system has successfully collected waste such as old car tires and electric scooters from the bottom of the sea. P…

A demonstration of the SeaClear 2.0 project took place this Tuesday in Marseille in the port of l'Estaque. To be discovered in video. Code name: "SeaClear 2.0". A fleet of submarine drones, floating and flying, all autonomous. This fully automatic device thanks to artificial intelligence is capable of collecting waste at the bottom of the water or on the surface. As on Tuesday in the port of l'Estaque, with a demonstration in real condition.

Milan, 17 sets. (askanews) - Researchers at the Technical University of Monaco are testing for the first time in Marseille an autonomous underwater robot capable of self-detecting and recovering waste, a technology defined as "revolutionary" by its designers. Artificial intelligence analyzes objects on the seabed using ultrasounds and cameras, grabs them and brings them back to the surface. Here there are ships and two sea drones connected by a …

·Italy
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TechXplore broke the news in on Wednesday, September 17, 2025.
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