Bebot beach cleaning robot

[David777]

These machines made an appearance in 2021 but this person only stumbled on that this morning over a news story on cleaning up Lake Tahoe beaches. In the future they will also be able to do so in underwater sand beach areas. An example of recent automated technology machines doing real good. Love how clean results are.

Am hoping some local coastal cities take note and purchase some of these machines. Beaches in Santa Cruz are particularly trashy. Note much beach rubbish is organic tree debris draining down from rivers though there is plenty of human trash since so many people today are such PIGs. Visibly the worst is barbecue and bonfire black sooty trash that normally takes time to erode away.

https://www.tahoedailytribune.com/n...million-square-feet-of-lake-tahoes-shoreline/

 

[CooCooforCoCoPuffs]

Very cool. Oddly, when I was driving on West bound I-10 going into downtown Tucson yesterday, I was noting so much trash on the sides of the roadways; as they had recently been mowed of all the weeds and brush so it uncovered trash everywhere.

And I found myself dreaming up how to engineer a highway roadside trash vacuum!

 

[David777]

TRASH: Tandem Rover and Aerial Scrap Harvester

http://arxiv.org/pdf/2301.01704v2
snippet;


Roadside littering poses significant environmental and aes-
thetic challenges. Across the US national highways, there is
an estimated 51.2 billion pieces of litter. Addressing this
concern, municipalities like Monterey County Public Works
and Caltrans allocate substantial resources, amounting to an
annual expenditure of $50 million. Despite these efforts,
the litter problem persists, suggesting the need for innovative
solutions.

To address this challenge, we introduce an autonomous
multi-robot system that employs a three-stage approach: Map-
ping, Navigation, and Greedy Pickup. The procedure initiates
with a drone, surveying a designated road area. The acquired
visuals are wirelessly transmitted to a ground robot, facilitating
the creation of a comprehensive map and the pinpointing of
litter locations. Subsequently, the ground robot navigates to
each litter spot, employing the greedy pickup mode for scan-
ning, re-identification, and collection...