the company aims to is to form an economy centered around cleaning beaches and oceans educating humans about the impacts of plastic consumption.ĭesigners: 4ocean in collaboration with poralu marine apart from sifting sand, the robot can also be used to gather algae, lift and carry loads - like beach chairs, or can even be used to level sand fields. The vehicle is a new clean ocean technology designed to address pollution issues and can both replace and work in combination with prevalent cleanup systems. its innovative track system and remote control device allow to steer and guide the robot with high precision also on uneven landscapes. the robot is powered by a mix of solar and battery and is remotely controlled by a human operator from a maximum of 300 m distance. The BeBot developed by 4ocean, runs at depth of up to 10cm and collects plastic waste such as cigarette butts, food wrappers, bottle caps, and other fragments that could stay hidden in the sand.
the 100% electric vehicle can silently clean up to 3.000 sqm of beach per hour depending on the terrain. BeBot is a mobile beach-cleaning robotthat mechanically sifts sand to collect plastic waste and other debris as small as 1 square cm without harming the environment. The company will recycle the plastic collected by BeBot for use in products such as sneakers and also hopes it will raise greater awareness of the plastics crisis.4ocean in collaboration with poralu marine created an eco-friendly solution for beach cleanups. “That’s where a machine like this is designed for, because it’s nearly impossible to spend that much time sorting out these materials,” noted Alex Schulze, cofounder and CEO of 4ocean. That’s still time consuming, but much faster than trying to sift through each part of the beach manually.”Ĥocean, which makes products from plastic collected from the ocean, beaches, and rivers, is testing the robot first in Hawaii, where some beaches are known as the most plastic-polluted places on the planet. After BeBot has finished its collection, a person does need to sort through the contents “to separate recyclable plastic and trash from materials that can return to the sand. As it motors along, it “sifts the top layer of sand through a screen, capturing anything larger than a square centimeter, from pieces of old packaging to cigarette butts.” It is much more efficient than human hands and much smaller and quieter than the large equipment sometimes used in beach cleanups.
4ocean, a Certified B Corp that is committed to ending the ocean plastic crisis, has partnered with Poralu Marine, a global marine industry leader, to deploy a new beach-cleaning robot called the BeBot, which targets microplastics.ĭeveloped by Poralu Marine, the BeBot runs on batteries connected to a solar panel, and can cover an area roughly three-fifths the size of a football field each hour.
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