• EU researchers are developing AI-guided robot fleets to take over the dangerous, dirty work of finding and removing marine litter from the sea floor. • A ship with a crane floats in the Mediterranean sun at a marina in Marseille, France. • The crane whirs as it hauls waste from the seabed and, when the wire breaks the surface, the gripper at the end is clutching a rubber tire covered in algae.
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- EU researchers are developing fleets of AI‑guided robots to locate and remove marine litter from the sea floor. A demonstration in Marseille, France, showed a crane‑equipped vessel hauling debris from the Mediterranean seabed. The crane’s cable lifted a rubber tire encrusted with algae, which was then grasped by a robotic gripper. The project aims to automate the hazardous task of cleaning underwater litter, potentially scaling up to tackle widespread marine pollution across European waters.
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