DW: They should name it the Bully2000 and have it kick sand in other robot's faces.
Canada’s first beach-cleaning robot, a boxy electric rover called the BeBot, rolled onto the sand at Sibbald Point Provincial Park on Lake Simcoe on June 23rd. Launched by the non-profit Pollution Probe as part of the Great Lakes Plastic Cleanup, the remote-controlled machine sifts debris as small as four millimetres, gobbling up food wrappers, cigarette butts, bottles and tiny plastic shards before they wash into the lake.
BeBot can scoop about 100 litres each cycle, cover 3,000 square metres an hour, and run eight hours on one charge. After its Lake Simcoe debut, it will tour other Ontario Parks sites on Lakes Huron, Erie, and Ontario—bolstering the more than 160 plastic-capture devices already in place at 225 cleanup locations. Funded in part by Unsmoke Canada, the pilot aims to show how small robots can help keep the planet’s largest freshwater system healthy for wildlife and summer beachgoers alike.
Source: CTV News
