The ocean floor is getting its own foundation model
the ocean floor is getting its own foundation model: shihang’s ceorion trains underwater robots for 12 operation scenarios from millions of hours of commercial data, and eu robots now pick litter off the seabed without divers. a munich autonomous gripper handled full garbage recovery in marseille and hamburg.
the last unautomated frontier is wet.
Context
Verified event dates: Seahi Robotics (Shihang Intelligence) released CEORION, described as the world's first marine embodied AI foundation model, on Apr 25, 2026. A Chinese report (Jun 18, 2026) says it was trained on million-hour-scale commercial operation data and covers 12 categories of underwater operation.
The Hamburg Port Authority presented the SeaClear 2.0 robot system in live operation on May 22, 2025, a project to remove marine litter from the seabed in the Mediterranean and beyond.
CEORION's release, its 12 operation categories and the SeaClear 2.0 seabed litter robot match their sources. The Marseille trial and a 'munich autonomous gripper' are not seen in the sources read, so unsupported here, not refuted. 'Without divers' is the author's summary of SeaClear's autonomous design.
Related work
- Seahi Robotics: CEORION release ↗Apr 25, 2026 release.
- Port of Hamburg: AI against plastic waste ↗May 22, 2025.
- SeaClear2.0 project ↗Project site.
Watch next
- Read the SeaClear 2.0 trial report for the Marseille tests.
Sources
- Seahi Robotics, CEORIONseahi.com
- Port of Hamburg, SeaClear 2.0hafen-hamburg.de
- SeaClear2.0 trials reportseaclear2.eu
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The note above is reproduced unedited from the original post, first published on Threads on 2 October 2026 at 05:11 IST. Sources are the papers and datasets the note draws on.
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