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ProteiSailing robot to explore and clean the oceanSponsorship Proposal, April 2014
Cesar HARADA, Protei [email protected]://goo.gl/lBLZBT
The Ocean is Dying
The problems
BP Oil Spill, 2010
Human health impact
Lamma Island, HK
Oil Spill Plastic Radioactivity Acidification Overfishing
Sailing Robots
Wind powered robot
Collect dataClean up
Physics
Modular
Extendable
Airbus A319
NASA Boeing “Flexible wing control [...] Weight reductions of 25% and aspect-ratio increases of 30-40% for cantilever wings”. Enter service 2025
The future of Aero & Hydrodynamics
5.7 m Long3-5 knots avg speed100 kg payload2100 N miles in 34 days<30’000 USD / dayNot commercial yet
2.9 m Long1-2 knots avg speed45 kg payload6 months250’000 USDCommercial
SizeSpeedPayloadEndurancePriceStatus
WaveGlider Saildrone Protei
4 m Long1-3 knots avg speed50 kg payloadneeds further testing770 USDBeta release April 2014
Competition
Assembled : 1280 USD Kit : 770 USD
Affordable Products
2. Technology
1. Money
3. People
4. Nature
2. People
1. Nature
3. Technology
4. Money
Conventional Business Protei (environmental) Business
Protei order of priorities
R&D : Global Social Network
Technology : Shape-Shifting Sailing Modular Robot
Intellectual Property : Open Hardware for the Ocean
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Disruptive autonomous sailing robots. Lower cost for ocean science and clean up. Maximum impact.
We are different
Media Opportunity
Protei + Sponsor (you)
Branding
● Product, prototype, missions, events, website, publications
● Associate with #Innovation #Environment #OpenSource
● Share expertize
In 3 years : hundred of boats at sea1. In 3 years : hundred robots at sea
Cesar HARADA (HK) : Former MIT project leader, GOOD and IBM Figure of Progress. Gabriella Levine (SF) : Google X Developer
2. Reinforce our Global team
Office (while building robots) Workshop
3. Upgrade Protei headquarters in Hong Kong
Hardware (Boat)
Software (on-board “intelligence” + Android app / HTML5 control board)
Data (Radioactivity, Plastic, oil, overfishing...)
Analysis
Community (website)
2014 2015 2016 2017
Roadmap
Pioneer ocean innovation with Protei
HardwareSoftware
DataAnalysis
Community
2014 2015 2016 2017
Sponsorship spending
25k U$D 250k U$D 500k U$D
Increase headcount, location & tools, missions, education
Market Target
Kids Hobby Citizen Scientist Scientist Industry Governments Army