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Today we’re launching Humans of Asterion, a series of conversations with the investors and builders tackling deep, structural challenges within the Asterion ecosystem. And we couldn’t have hoped for a better opening guest than Patricia Apostol, CTO and co-founder of Bubble Robotics. Patricia worked at NASA, building robots for space exploration. She’s now applying that same engineering discipline to a frontier that is much closer, and still largely overlooked: the ocean. “The ocean has 30 times the carbon-capture potential compared to the same area on land. By 2040, the areas to monitor will be 1,000 times bigger,” she told us. And yet, we still inspect offshore infrastructure with boats, divers, and narrow weather windows — tools that simply don’t match the scale of what’s at stake. Bubble proposes a shift in mindset: Instead of visiting underwater assets occasionally, we should live alongside them, through resident autonomous robots capable of continuous monitoring. In this episode, we explore: → Space engineering applied to the ocean → Why offshore energy, climate and security can no longer be separated → What it takes to build the deeptech critical to Europe’s future The episode is now live. Link in the comments. (And if this resonates, Bubble’s round remains open for a few more weeks. You can reach out via DM.) Next episodes will feature Philippe Berlan, CEO of EverDye, and Alex Haag, CEO of the Franco-German deeptech Futurail.

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