Sunday, September 01, 2024

Startup Clearbot’s boats are cleaning up water surface waste from waterways around Hong Kong

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"In between the speedboats, luxury yachts, and wooden fishing boats moored in a Hong Kong marina, a different kind of vessel maneuvers. It looks unassuming, but as the three-meter-long (10-foot-long) uncrewed catamaran moves deftly through the water, it consumes waste floating on the surface in a Pac-Man-like fashion.

Discarded plastic water bottles, juice boxes and cartons travel through a gap in the front of the boat and move up a conveyor belt. A camera photographs the haul, before the garbage is deposited in a collection basket in the center of the boat. ...

Clearbot is trying to change that with its autonomous, solar-powered boats, like the one in Hong Kong which can gobble up 80 kilograms (176 pounds) of waste an hour and carry 200 kilograms (441 pounds) on board. ..."

Startup Clearbot’s boats are cleaning up waste from waterways | CNN

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