#dustbot

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DustCart (2009) by Paolo Dario, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, Italy. The DustBot project "Networked and Cooperating Robots for Urban Hygiene" operates robots in unstructured urban environments such as squares, streets, parks. These cleaning robots sweep up street litter and can also collect small quantities of rubbish directly from people's homes.

This "citizen-friendly robot for rubbish collection [is] called DustCart, so-called because it is equipped with a cart for bin-liner transportation and disposal. This robot has a user interface aimed at providing selected information about air quality and waste management. But the robot's greatest advantage is its size - it can navigate through narrow streets and alleys where normal rubbish collection vehicles cannot drive through.

The actual robot is 1.5 metres [tall], weighs 70 kilograms and can carry 80 litres or 30 kilograms. It travels at 1 metre per second and its battery provides it with 16 kilometres of autonomy, and works through preloaded information on the environment such as area maps. This information goes into on-board and external sensory systems (ambient intelligence platform). The robots then move at a selectable level of autonomy to carry out their tasks." – European Commission, Robots designed to clean up our streets.

[fannyfrank]

MY MOTORCYCLE IS TAKING OVER MY LIFE

A lyric from Micah Preite's Kiss Driving the Elevator sigh.

weclome dustbot! havent drawn it in a while

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Tomy Dustbot Robot Toy

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Pink & Black 403

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The boys are back in town

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DustBots di Peccioli (2010) Paolo Dario et al, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, Italy. In the small town of Peccioli, thirty-five citizens joined a trial to trash their domestic waste using the DustBot system – a modified version of the system developed in the DustBot project. They even got their very own 'robot lane' in the street.

"Peccioli, a small medieval town in Italy, was used (not demonstrated) to carry out a public service in the urban environment (from 15 June 2010 to 7 August 2010). Thirty-five real users accepted to trash their domestic waste using the robot DustCart, a mobile robot designed to collect, transport, and discharge rubbish bags in complete autonomy. During the testing period, the robot safely traveled along the public streets of Peccioli, carrying out its daily service and sharing the urban environment with the passers-by, bicycles, and cars, without causing any problems.

The objects of the test were two robot prototypes of the DustCart, which is a mobile autonomous service robot, designed to carry out door-to-door, separate waste collection on demand. The robot consists of a mobile platform, originally the robotic mobility platform 200, a two-wheel robot commercialized by Segway, and customized to support a bin container for the transport and discharge of waste. To make the robot safer and increase its endurance, however, a new mobile base was developed from the scratch for the test in Peccioli. The new base consists of two actuated wheels and two supporting wheels, which overcome a few technical limitations intrinsic in the Segway platform.

An interesting point was the fact that the link with tradition played an important role in accepting … DustCart: people who showed some initial doubts about the robot were definitely convinced as soon as someone remembered … the ancient dustman, named Oscar, who used to collect garbage in a truck when called by Peccioli citizens." – The Robot DustCart, by Pericle Salvini, Giancarlo Teti, Enza Spadoni, Cecilia Laschi, Barbara Mazzolai, and Paolo Dario.

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DustClean (2009) by RoboTech SRL, Largo Ciardelli, Pisa, Italy. DustClean is a sleek road sweeping robot developed by RoboTech in the DustBot project funded by the European Commission. Two kinds of cleaning robot were developed within the project – DustCart and DustClean which is equipped with cleaning tools, multiple sensors and an electronic nose for monitoring atmospheric pollutants, gathering information about environmental quality.

"Dustclean is an autonomous mobile robot equipped with brushes and container for sweeping and collecting garbage from the ground, and designed for the cleaning of urban pedestrian areas, such as parks, roads and squares, or outdoor areas of industrial plants, such as sheds and parking. DustClean is able to operate autonomously and safely using preloaded information on the environment, such as the map of the area, and information coming from the on-board sensors. The robot is able to follow a working path planned autonomously or defined by a user, avoiding hitting obstacles during navigation." – RoboTech, DustClean.

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THREE MORE REFS DONE! mrs. project has alot of.... developments to come but figured id get some more of these out~

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