People continue to come up with inventive ways to clean up rubbish. Until we can persuade the human race to stop throwing trash where it intends to be. That is precisely why, Martijn Lukaart and Edwin ...

Until we learn to pick up after ourselves, a robot will have to do. BeachBot, or BB for short, is far from being skilled at picking up litter at the beach, but at least it’s making more of an effort ...

BeachBot inventors Edwin Bos and Martijn Lukaart of TechTics got fed up with the worrying number of cigarette butts on Scheveningen Beach in Holland. The solution? Create a robot that looks like a ...

Humans are entirely responsible for the pollution crisis that’s currently killing wildlife around the world, and ultimately, it’s going to be up to us to fix it. In the meantime, smart machines could ...

Edwin Bos savored the idyllic scene: blue sea, brilliant sun and his two small children frolicking on Scheveningen Beach. Popular with tourists and locals, the 4.5-kilometer stretch of Dutch coast is ...

In another entry to non-threatening, AI-powered robots enter BeachBot (or BB). This beachside companion identifies cigarette butts with the help of Microsoft’s AI systems, and then promptly disposes ...