Product profile
Clearbot Alligator
Clearbot Alligator is Clear Robotics' autonomous surface vessel for debris collection and waterway maintenance.
Facts
- Company
- Clear Robotics
- Product type
- autonomous_surface_vessel
- Status
- commercial
- Primary capability
- autonomous surface cleanup
- Website
- https://www.clearbot.org/alligator
About Clearbot Alligator
Clearbot Alligator is a 6.2 m electric workboat built specifically for cutting and collecting dense water hyacinth and other invasive aquatic vegetation. Its larger hull and vegetation-handling equipment distinguish it from Clearbot's compact floating-litter and survey vessels, while AI navigation and remote control support operation across ports, lakes and heavily infested water bodies.
The vessel is specified for four hours of battery operation, a 2-knot average speed and 3 km range. In a Veolia project in Hong Kong, Clear Robotics reports that Alligator cleared 3,000 square metres and collected 260 tonnes of hyacinth over two weeks at about 90 square metres per hour.
Market context
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Summary
Type: Autonomous surface vessel
Core: Surface cleanup
Function: Collect floating debris in waterways
Audience: Environmental service teams
Operations
- Environment
- ports, lakes, weed_infested_waterways
- Primary user
- waterway operators, municipal cleanup teams, environmental service providers
- Role
- invasive_vegetation_cutting, water_hyacinth_collection, waterway_restoration
- Interaction model
- remote supervision, operator-configured missions
- Mobility class
- electric autonomous surface vessel
- Product detail
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Research, Articles and recent verified events
- Clearbot raises $1.75 million for autonomous electric ships — 2026-06-08
- Clearbot completes six-month Pasig River cleanup pilot — 2026-01-28
- Clearbot Neo operates in Hong Kong and India with 10+ boats active — 2022-12-29
- Clearbot closes seed round led by Alibaba Hong Kong Entrepreneurs Fund and Gobi Ventures — 2022-12-29