Climate Change
Climate Change
Posted on Oct 2, 2023
Seaweed is mucking up beaches. This robot could stop it — and fight climate change : Short Wave
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On a rainy September morning, on the outskirts of Glasgow, Scotland, a handful of engineers are standing around a plastic swimming pool.
Sitting along the water's surface are little rubber duckies, the kind you'd expect to find in a bathtub, not an engineering laboratory.
On a rainy September morning, on the outskirts of Glasgow, Scotland, a handful of engineers are standing around a plastic swimming pool.
Sitting along the water's surface are little rubber duckies, the kind you'd expect to find in a bathtub, not an engineering laboratory.
Seaweed is mucking up beaches. This robot could stop it — and fight climate change : Short Wave
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
..."Back in the lab in Scotland, the engineers are putting it through a series of tests: Turning on its headlight, trying out its thrusters, ensuring it's recording all the data needed to assess its own performance.
Estridge estimates it may be another 18 months until the AlgaRay could be ready to operate autonomously in the wild. But for now, it's checking all the boxes, scooping up each rubber duckie one by one."
..."Back in the lab in Scotland, the engineers are putting it through a series of tests: Turning on its headlight, trying out its thrusters, ensuring it's recording all the data needed to assess its own performance.
Estridge estimates it may be another 18 months until the AlgaRay could be ready to operate autonomously in the wild. But for now, it's checking all the boxes, scooping up each rubber duckie one by one."
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