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The solar-powered robot can collect 250kg of plastics in one cycle.

Gaming hardware company Razer has partnered with Clearbot to help clean the Earth’s oceans.

Dedicated to helping provide a greener, more sustainable future, Razer has now announced a partnership with Clearbot. Last month was World Oceans Day and to celebrate, Razer announced that it has been working with Clearbot to redesign their AI robot built to clean up marine plastics.

Razer says that its engineers and designers have “volunteered personal time and technical expertise” to help turn Clearbot’s prototype into a mass-marketable product.

The new design has “cutting-edge AI” and can detect marine plastics within two meters in rough waters. It’s also capable of collecting up to 250kg of plastics in one cycle and runs on solar-powered energy to do so.

The company details that there are “approximately 11 million tons of plastics entering the oceans each year” and that cleaning enterprises face difficulties with dated technology, the costs, and their efficiency. Clearbot uses AI-vision that can identify the types of plastic waste and collect information. The waste is then responsibly disposed of once retrieved.