00:00This might look like a tiny submarine scooting around the surface of the water, but it's not.
00:09This is what French designer Nicolas Carlessi calls jellyfish bot, and it may be cleaning up waterways near you soon.
00:15But if you're thinking to yourself, that doesn't look like a jellyfish, well, it actually kind of does.
00:20The robot putters across the surface of the water, while a bag dangles behind it, much like the tentacles of a jellyfish, all the while collecting whatever trash it runs over.
00:28Carlessi says he came up with the idea after watching people manually clean up dirty areas around the ports he leaves when going diving, but imagining he could make the tedious workboat easier and more thorough.
00:38Which is why he also gave the jellyfish bot the ability to collect hydrocarbon on the surface of the water as well, allowing it to purge areas of floating debris, oil, and gasoline left behind by humans.
00:48The little bot clocks in at only around 28 inches by 28 inches big, which might seem small, but it allows it to get in between boats and other portside nooks and crannies.
00:57And since according to the World Wildlife Fund, around 660,000 tons of plastic end up in the Mediterranean alone every year, this tiny bot already has its work cut out for it.
