Razer Unveils AI-Powered Robot for Cleaning Up Ocean Waste

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Razer recently announced that it had committed itself to a greener and more sustainable future with a new 10-year sustainability plan called #GoGreenWithRazer. As the latest step in that initiative, Razer has teamed up with a robotics company called Clearbot to develop a fully automated robot that aims to clean up the world’s oceans with the assistance of artificial intelligence. Razer and Clearbot’s contraption is capable of detecting marine plastics within 2 meters in rough waters and collecting up to 250 kg of plastics in just one cycle while running on solar-powered energy.









With approximately 11 million tons of plastics entering the oceans each year, ocean cleaning enterprises often face difficulties with dated technology, cost, and...

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[Rusty Shackleford]

So many Razer jokes we could make here lol.. but in all seriousness, this is pretty **** neat. There a big push for this kind of stuff right now and I don't blame companies for wanting to get in on it.

 

[Grimlakin]

Makes sense to me. Then after three months tje death adder version can clean that one up.

 

[Uvilla]

Ay ay ay. These things are such an absurd thing. Its like when they send barges to pickup oily water after a spill... Pure theatre and play acting. Nothing else... I think everyone instinctively knows this, some acknowledge it, others lash out against acknowledgement of the bs.