Project

The ocean covers over 70% surface of the earth, however, we have to say that so far human being knows still very little under these waters, although we believe there should be plenty of resources we could adopt if we could find out some safe and cost-effective technology to do so. Subsea robotics has been helping human beings to extend their capabilities in recent decades, thanks to the rapid technology development. Subsea robots can commit difficult and/or dangerous tasks beyond human's natural capability, such as deepwater sea floor scanning, oil & gas exploitation and exploration, subsea pipeline installation and inspection, as well as handling some catastrophic disasters.

The proposed equipment can certainly provide us with a solid and professional subsea robotic platform, not only to verify our so-far obtained results, but also to inspire new thinking and ideas, as well as to provide relevant industries a lab-sized testing robot protocol.

Vessel propellers have reduced power efficiency with increased growth of barnacles and fouling, leading to an

increase in fuel consumption as high as 5%. SubBlue Robotics has developed an underwater propeller po-
lishing robot that allows for propeller polishing without the use of divers, and is capable of careful, precisepolishing of curved surfaces. As no divers are in the water, it can polish when the ship is loading and unloading

cargo, thus saving the shipowner valuable idling. Idling is the reason why the propeller polishing is often skip-
ped. The project will give technical robustness to the existing prototype, develop commercial grade components, and test the robot on commercial vessels. Leading partner is SubBlue Robotics, who has worked on

the designs and prototypes since 2016, the MMMI now IME institute at SDU provides knowledge on robots in harsh

enviroments, while shipowners DFDS and Maersk and diving company Odin Diving represent the market de-
mands the robot must meet. Three senior executives from CoGrow have invested in SubBlue Robotics, who

has just secured yet more capital and competences from two more investors.