The cute, Italian-made, DustCart robot is designed to clean up the streets and also come and pick up household trash on command. The Wall-E-like robots are part of a $3.9 million dollar Scuola Superiore di Sant’Anna of Pisa DustBot Research Project with the aim of using robots in useful ways in society.
The DustCart robots have the ability to autonomously move about urban environments while vacuuming up garbage and dirt in town squares, city streets, and public parks. Residents can also give the DustCart a call and the robot will drop by and pick up and transport small quantities of household garbage.
The DustCarts were created to improve the management of “urban hygiene” using an army of autonomous and cooperating robots with a GPS system embedded in an Ambient Intelligence infrastructure. The robots function by using preloaded maps and external sensory systems.
DustCarts will operate as mobile pollutant monitoring stations in highly populated areas with multiple sensors to check air quality including nitrogen oxide, sulphur oxides, ozone, benzene, CO2 and carbon monoxide.
The robots are still in the prototype stage, but more tests are planned for later this yeahttp://www.dustbot.org/
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