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this is the ocean cleanup system and it's coming for the Pacific Garbage Patch welcome to what the future today we've got a massive project to clean the oceans about to get underway a robot you can live cam with and the Lego set every kid always dreamed of all right let's get right to it engineers are about to launch ocean cleanup they gave us a look at last-minute preparations the plan is to send ocean cleanup on its maiden voyage tomorrow from the San Francisco Bay now this is a huge u-shaped floating device 600 meters long it collects trash using this 3 meter skirt that hangs below the surface of the water once the garbage is collected it's picked up in boats for recycling the system operates autonomously while an algorithm determines its optimal locations now engineers say fish and other wildlife can swim safely underneath they designed it specifically to clean up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch now if you're not familiar with that it's a huge collection of floating junk sitting between California and Hawaii a report in March found the patches now three times the size of France a few weeks ago ocean cleanup tested a 120 meter section of its system Engineers said they were surprised at how well it performed in rough waters previously referred to as system zero zero one you can now call it Wilson now in a tweet the nonprofit's founder asked Tom Hanks if you'd like to put his handprint on Wilson so far no response from Hanks say hello to the robot nobody asked for this is cardiga porn site cam soda calls it the world's first sex robot people can live cam with for free yes you can tell cardi bot what to do from your own living room or bedroom or wherever but it's not just twerking shimmying and shaking as cam Soto says cardi BOTS can converse with users that's right it can talk dirty cam soda says cardi bot will be available once a week for free public shows but if you want a more intimate experience you can take it into a private session and yes she accepts tips now if cardi bot looks familiar she's the work of the same artist who designed these robot strippers we saw at CES this year alright remember when you told your parents you were gonna build a car out of Legos that really drives then you gave up six minutes later to watch cartoons well this bugatti chiron is made up of over 1 million legos and yes you can drive it but the crazy part is they built it the same way you remember building LEGO sets no glue it's powered by over 2,000 Lego motors like the ones moving the rear spoiler here it did require a few custom pieces and Lego produced a special color to match a real sheer on Legos team spent about 13,000 work hours building it still not as long as I spent building the lego Imperial Walker as a kid now since I know you're all wondering Lego estimates the car gets a whopping 5.3 horsepower and a top speed of about 18 miles per hour that's just a hair under the 260 from a real Sheeran all right it's question time Jason Fifield wants to know what keeps other boats from hitting Ocean Queen up now the chances of that are pretty slim since the Garbage Patch doesn't sit in any heavily traffic shipping routes but ocean cleanup says it's taken plenty of precautions including anti-collision beacons and radar reflectors plus the Coast Guard will chart the area as what it calls a special operation zone and notify ships of the system's location all right what makes you say WTF leave your question in the comments below that's going to do it for this show I'm Andy Altman thanks for watching you