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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Wall-E Sandwich

Posted by Robert Birming in Food & Drinks on January 24, 2009 at 3:03 am

In the “AnnaTheRed’s Bento Factory” blog you can find instructions on how to make your own Wall-E sandwich using wheat bread, turkey, mayonnaise, cheese and blueberries.

Link – Botropolis via Gizmodo

 
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Wall-E Wood Sculpture

Posted by Alex in Arts & Crafts, Movies & SciFi, Pictures, Toy & Video Games on December 31, 2008 at 2:10 am

We’ve featured incredibly cute Wall-E LEGO creations on Neatorama before (twice, actually), but this one takes the cake: an incredibly detailed Wall-E wooden sculpture by Morpheus Prototypes Morpheus Creative Form Development, commissioned by Disney as a gift for Pixar/Disney Chief Creative Officer John Lasseter

Link – via Make

 
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