and so on. and that's what we've developed. we have lots of boats that have 20, 30, a0 years' worth of lifespan left. lots of those boats are not going to be able to be retrofitted to become electric or something else. the best way of saving emissions from those boats, of saving the waterways that they're in, is to make them more efficient, to keep them clean, to make sure that we have slippery hulls going through the water as easily as possible. that exists as a problem across the world. as well as scrubbing, the bot is being modified to tackle another threat to underwater wildlife. we've adapted hullbot into

a tool for managing sea urchins which are in overabundance and threatening kelp on lots of coastlines around the world. they've called it cullbot and it can detect and control the pests with a drill attachment... ..in a special mode we call urchin destroy mode. it's been trialled by researchers from the university of new south wales and the sydney institute of marine science as part of the restoration efforts. so seagrass meadows and kelp forests are super—important habitats, that they provide food and home and shelter for hundreds of other species. it's what we call a foundation species. globally, we've lost about a third of the world's seagrasses, and about 50% of the world's kelp forests are degraded or declining. up until now, they've used some very manual tools. we're about to count the urchins that we see in 10m bands. and then we go back

along the line again and then we can take that data and go back and review it all back in the office. section of our study habitat. the beauty about a robot is that it can go very deep, it can stay down for as long as we want it. it scans the ocean floor, taking photos of the habitat as it goes, automatically piecing in the form of sd models. we can show the funding bodies, for example, orjust the general public, what things look like before and after we intervene. so what do you think, adriana? it is excellent. you can see the barren area really well. you can see the sea urchins and you can see how, with the robot, you canjust

capture a much, much larger yes... ..than we can with divers. it is, actually. i mean, it's not a particularly good day either, so... instead of sending divers down for days at a time could be done with the bot in only a couple of hours. it's not only about not damaging marine habitats any more, it's about recovering what we have lost because there have been, you know, hundreds of years of destruction, from a decline to a recovery, and it is happening. robots let us automate that. but they also let us do it much more frequently and on a much bigger scale, the kind of scale we need to solve the immensity of these challenges. of course, this isjust

one tool in the giantjigsaw of cleaning up our mess. to determine whether or not to do something with them. the world, and many of them are made using asphalt, but once cracks form in asphalt, they can quickly the dreaded pothole. but a research project between swansea university reducing the cracks before they develop by healing itself.

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