A newbeach-cleaning robot called BeachBotrolls along the sand, picking up cigarette butts.
“Think of something like a Roomba cleaning your floor, but on a much larger scale.
Coupling that with solar energy could even allow them to do it for fairly long periods of time.”
Techtics
The BeachBot isnt the only beach cleaning robot roaming the sands.
Theres also thefour-wheeled robot being developed by BC-Robopin Japan that follows volunteers as they comb the beach.
The humans gather trash in a basket on runners pulled by the robot.
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The robot can recognize people and automatically follow them as they move around looking for trash.
Researchers plan to equip the robot with a mechanical arm so it can pick up trash on its own.
A popular app for small-scale boats is to gather floating debris in waterways, Laut said.
Other robotic devices are geared towards cleaning up oil spills.
Cleaning beaches is more complicated than it seems.
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New technology could make environmental cleaning robots even more effective.
Some interior cleaning robots also are designed with the environment in mind.
The robot also can provide data about water consumption through web software.
