An underwater robot can autonomously scan large areas of seabed to identify plastic, rubber and metal rubbish using artificial intelligence image recognition. The technology will help focus the limited budgets for clean-up efforts on the most toxic and environmentally damaging materials.
and his colleagues at the Norwegian firm Skarv Technologies created a 45-kilogram underwater robot equipped with stereo cameras, while researchers at , another firm in Norway, produced a spectrometer that can identify the material an object is made of even through metres of murky water.
The robot scours the seabed at a distance of 2…
