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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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Final SeaClear demonstration: Dubrovnik

23 October 2023

After almost four years of work, the final SeaClear demonstrations took place in the second week of October in Dubrovnik. On the 9th of O...

SeaClear featured in ARTE Regards documentary

04 September 2023

A few months ago, during our last public demonstration of the SeaClear system, we were interviewed by journalists of ARTE, who were devel...

A versatile and robust gripper design

In order to collect common consumer-scale litter items from the sea floor, a specialized gripper is required to account for the various t...

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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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