Combatting climate change with robotics and seaweed

Seaweed is amazing. It can absorb carbon faster than the rainforests, and grows in the ocean without the need for freshwater or additional nutrients. It can be used as food, fertiliser, animal feed, packaging, carbon dioxide removal and so much more.

Our mission is to develop the technology to grow seaweed sustainably and cheaply, making these uses commonplace, and to make sinking seaweed for billion tonne scale carbon dioxide removal commercially viable.

Stay up to date with our work by joining our mailing list.

AlgaRay, our first robot, sinks invasive seaweed into the deep ocean.

By doing this, it not only locks carbon away for hundreds of years, but also prevents environmental disasters caused by the seaweed (a floating species called Sargassum) when it hits coasts, where it can also severely impact human health and livelihoods.

Our second robot, the AlgaVator, increases automation in seaweed cultivation.

The AlgaVator is designed to decrease the cost of growing seaweed, so we can use it for high volume products such as animal feed, fertiliser and packaging, or sink it for carbon dioxide removal.

The ocean is our most important resource, and the world's biggest carbon sink.

We need to decarbonise our food chains and industries as quickly as possible. We believe that the ocean is the key to a low carbon future, and are building the technology to make it happen.

Combatting climate change with robotics and seaweed

Seaweed is amazing. It can absorb carbon faster than the rainforests, and grows in the ocean without the need for freshwater or additional nutrients. It can be used as food, fertiliser, animal feed, packaging, carbon dioxide removal and so much more.

Our mission is to develop the technology to grow seaweed sustainably and cheaply, making these uses commonplace, and to make sinking seaweed for billion tonne scale carbon dioxide removal commercially viable.

Stay up to date with our work by joining our mailing list.

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AlgaRay, our first robot, sinks invasive seaweed into the deep ocean.

By doing this, it not only locks carbon away for hundreds of years, but also prevents environmental disasters caused by the seaweed (a floating species called Sargassum) when it hits coasts, where it can also severely impact human health and livelihoods.

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Our second robot, the AlgaVator, increases automation in seaweed cultivation.

The AlgaVator is designed to decrease the cost of growing seaweed, so we can use it for high volume products such as animal feed, fertiliser and packaging, or sink it for carbon dioxide removal.

The ocean is our most important resource, and the world's biggest carbon sink.

We need to decarbonise our food chains and industries as quickly as possible. We believe that the ocean is the key to a low carbon future, and are building the technology to make it happen.

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