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treehugger.com - 10/16/2009

Tiny Robot Trash Harvesters to Clean Streets of the Future

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Images via Tuvie Move over Roomba , you've just met your match. It's called the Scarab, and it's an automated robot that's been designed to efficiently and quickly clean much larger areas, like shopping centers and neighborhood streets. Could these little robots be the future of urban waste ...

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Scarab: A Roomba For The Mean City Streets
Wired: Gadget Lab — ... teenagers, bent on teasing the poor machine or even just kicking its face in. Stick this out into the real mean city streets and you’d lose the entire fleet in days, stolen and repurposed or just sold. No, a real street-smart robot would need some kind of defense. A taser, perhaps, or at the very least an electrified shell. And there you have it. The perfect street cleaning robot would in fact be R2D2. We welcome the future. Product page [Coroflot via Treehugger] ...

Army of Scarabs Can Keep Streets Clean [Robots]
Gizmodo — ... of shopping centers. Robot can gather big rubbish using manipulators. Two web cameras and sensing length element help to make estimate of the territory and find where the rubbish is. Scope of small rubbish creates by two diagonal sweeper-collectors, that sweep just close to the edge. Tank is put away from robot automatically. It would be nice to see it implemented. New York, for example, needs a few hordes of these robots. [Coroflot via Treehugger] ...