By cleaning a ship's hull, this robot will allow ships to travel through the water more efficiently by cutting down on drag -- and of course reducing fuel costs.

The robot is kept onboard the ship and can be deployed whenever the vessel is stationary and has a data connection, he adds. Biofouling is the buildup of marine life, such as barnacles, mussels ...

Not only will this Roomba-style cleaning robot help keep cargo ships looking fresh, ... over five years a single ship using a HullSkater robot could cut 22,000 metric tons of CO2 emissions.

The company isn’t alone in using robots to combat maritime emissions. Norwegian chemicals giant Jotun A/S has a hull-cleaning robot called HullSkater, which travels with ships and cleans whenever they ...

Hismar, a hull-cleaning robot developed at the United Kingdom's Newcastle University, could save the shipping industry from excess drag, fuel consumption, and pollution. Robot to keep ship hulls ...

To compensate for the drag, the ship may have to use as much as 40 percent more fuel. ... it’s an autonomous hull-cleaning robot. The Robotic Hull Bio-inspired Underwater Grooming tool, ...

A robot that can carry out a range of ship-cleaning processes in a productive, safe and environmentally friendly way was unveiled here yesterday. The Envirobot, as it is called, removes paint on ship ...

Tas Global commercializes 'world's first' ship hull cleaning robot system August 25, 2021 by Mai Tao Leave a Comment A startup. Tuesday, 02 January 2024 12:17 GMT.

(The Boston Dynamics test robot has already undergone some shipboard trials, Henshaw said, although he did not have more details). While there are many ship tasks for which a loyal robot assistant ...

Due to the use of the cleaning robot, which is normally used to remove fouling such as algae and barnacles from ship’s hulls to save fuel costs, a completely safe operation was created.