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We are building the first robots to clean the litter from the ocean floor

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Today's oceans contain 26-66 million tons of waste, with approximately 94% located on the seafloor. So far, collection efforts have focused mostly on surface waste. The few efforts to gather underwater waste involve human divers who are put in potential danger.

No solution exists that exploits autonomous robots for underwater litter collection. The SeaClear project will develop the first.

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While we are progressing with the science and technology involved in cleaning up the litter from the seafloor, we took the chance to popu...

SEACLEAR won IAPH Sustainability Award

Every year, the International Association of Ports and Harbours, accepts nominations for awards in selected categories of projects suppor...

Second trials of SEACLEAR system: Port of Hamburg

The second round of trials of the SEACLEAR system took place in the port of Hamburg between 10 and 12 of May 2022. The port of Hamburg is...

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SEACLEAR Project Partners

Delft University of Technology

DUNEA

Fraunhofer - CML

Hamburg Port Authority AöR

Subsea Tech

Technical University of Cluj-Napoca

Technical University of Munich

University of Dubrovnik

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 871295.

The SEACLEAR project spans four years, running from January 1st, 2020 to December 31st, 2023.

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