There is still time before Wall-E becomes real, but with the pace sweeping robots are intruding into our homes and environ, time isn’t long away. Garbage, trash, gutters and service, those have been some favored areas where our wit-created contraptions are replacing us steadily. The DustCar here is another robotic genius pushing itself hard into our dirty vicinity with its garbage collection attribute; Wall-E a reality isn’t far behind, right?
The 1.5-meter high and 77cm tall DustCar is a happy-go-lucky garbage robot that takes instructions through a touchscreen mounted on its body. The robot moves on tires avoiding obstacles using its built-in recognition system with a laser sensor to understand what’s in front of it and make distinctions in trash and obstruction. Equipped with a GPS system, the robot takes SMS alerts for chores and can travel up to 16k /h to 24 km/h, whereby it can be left loose to wander from door to door to collect almost 30kg of garbage.
We’ve never taken the pain to clear the trash around us, and there isn’t denying the fact that we always look out for our maids to do that for us. Our lethargic attitude has taken us far and so these robots are always well accepted, therefore when the garbage robot DustCar makes its debut in Pontedera, near Pisa on May 9, there’ll be many out to appreciate this Wall-E wannabe.
Via: Tecnocino [Machine Translated]
