Neptune

Every year, $960 billion is spent on fuel consumption by global merchant ships. Around 18% of the fuel is used to fight resistance caused by bio-mass grown on the ship hull. The term specifically refers to a build-up of microorganisms and other life. That includes a wide range of different creatures, like algae and barnacles. The current solution is to send divers down to inspect and clean the ship hull. This contaminates waters, harms marine life, and is banned in the majority of ports.

Neptune’s self-developed and manufactured intelligent robot can conduct an above and underwater hull clean. They map a dynamic path planning in 3D space – above and below water – as well as automatic cleaning operations through its underwater positioning system, precise displacement projection, real-time robot pose capture, 3D map heuristic generation, and massive real-time data cloud computing and monitoring.