DustCart: The Real Life Wall-E

Posted by Alex in Science & Tech on July 9, 2009 at 3:13 pm


Meet DustCart, a real-life Wall-E, created by Italian scientist Paolo Dario and colleagues at the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna University.

The robotic trash bin can revolutionize trash collection in small Italian towns with small and windy streets inaccessible to large garbage trucks:

Like a taxi answering a call, DustCart rode across the terrace to meet the caller.

Once the robot arrived, it asked for a personal ID number that both identifies the user and tracks the garbage. It also asked for the kind of trash being dumped — organic, recyclable or waste. DustCart then opened its belly bin, collected the trash and took it to a fake dumping site.

Fulvio Paolocci and Angelica Marin of GlobalPost has the story (and lots of photos!): Link

(Photo: Fulvio Paolocci/Global Post)


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2 comments to "DustCart: The Real Life Wall-E"

  1. fun games for kids
    July 9th, 2009 at 9:44 pm

    Haha doesn't look as endearing as Wall-E. But somehow I think it takes away some of the responsibility from residents to take out their own trash and place them in proper bins (organic, recyclable, chemical etc.). I can't imagine a world that turned into what Wall-E the movie portrayed, where people can't be bothered to take responsibility for anything that could be done by a robot...

  2. Martin
    July 10th, 2009 at 3:09 am

    I think this Dustcart is gonna be introduced in small Swedish cities also if i remember correct. Pretty cool.


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