How automation can transform Seaweed farming – Joyeeta Das, CEO, SamudraOceans

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🗓️ 14 October 2024

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Joyeeta Das, co-founder and CEO of SamudraOceans, discusses how seaweed has an incredible variety of uses, including food, fuel, fertiliser and bioplastics; how coastal towns are facing the biggest danger from climate change, but could also contain vital ocean expertise; and the challenge of finding patient investors that will back causes over maximising profits.

SamudraOceans is developing automated technologies to transform the industry of seaweed farming. Das explains how the emerging sector is largely manual but with the right introduction of AI and robotics, could make all the difference in the global fight against man-made climate change. Das also describes why the ocean is one of the hardest environments to engineer for, including space.

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0:00.0	The ocean is a very hard environment to engineer for.
0:09.0	It's salty, it's windy, there's temperature and pressure fluctuations,
0:13.0	and you can have shiny things that want to come and eat where you've built.
0:20.0	So if you look at the displacement, we are expecting 300 to 600 million people displaced by the
0:25.6	rising water level alone, not to mention all the other side effects.
0:29.2	Where are we going to have these people 10, 15 years from now, 20 years from now?
0:33.7	No one's going to take them.
0:37.0	That's the scale of the ocean.
0:39.2	It's literally nothing compared to landmass.
0:43.1	We just don't understand what that means.
0:44.9	We literally have an ocean that we cannot even fathom how big it is.
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1:24.4	Hello and welcome to the UKTM podcast, a weekly chat with the movers and shakers of the UK tech industry and the destination for all things UK tech related.
1:37.0	And today I am joined by Joyita Das, the CEO and co-founder of Sumunda Oceans, a firm which is using tech to make the cultivation and
1:45.3	harvesting of seaweed easier. Welcome, Joita. Thank you, Jane. Now, let's start by just putting
1:51.9	this into context in terms of why we need to cultivate and harvest seaweed in the first place.
1:58.0	So, seaweed is actually an incredibly versatile thing. The first and foremost
2:02.9	thing to know about it is it actually captures a lot more carbon than even tropical forests. So it's a
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