#dustbot

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.

MY MOTORCYCLE IS TAKING OVER MY LIFE

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.

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.

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