In the port of Marseille, Dr Stefan Sosnowski from the Technical University of Munich explains how the intelligent diving robot works, which his team has developed over the last few years as part of the SEACLEAR research project.
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Autonomous underwater waste collection soon to be a reality"
TUM presents powerful diving robot equipped with gripper
Marine litter is a major environmental problem around the world. As part of the EU project SEACLEAR 2.0, 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 first time in the port of Marseille in France.
