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Dustbot

Prototype garbage-collection robot

Field	Value
title	Dustbot
image	[[File:Dustbot-logo.jpg]]
caption	Dustbot Demo Pontedera.
launch year	2009

Dustbot was a prototype robot that collected garbage from homes and streets. It could be summoned by phone call or SMS, and used GPS to automatically make its way to the customer, collect the rubbish, and take it to a dustbin. In addition, the Dustbots carried environmental sensors to monitor the pollution levels over, for example, a pedestrian area. Prototypes were tested in Italy, in Sweden, in Korea and Japan. Launch was planned in 2009, but the last reference in its webpage dates from 2011. The Dustbot project was funded by the European Commission and it never launched as a commercial product.

Technical

Dustbot uses different localisation and uses GPS navigation{{Cite web | archive-date = 16 October 2019 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20191016100245/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/8072619.stm | url-status = live |url-status = dead

It is able to monitor pollution through a number of air quality sensors, and can warn if the levels are too high.{{Cite web |url-status = dead | archive-date = April 13, 2009 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090413132555/http://www.aass.oru.se/Research/Learning/publications/Lilienthal_etal_2006-Sensors-Airborne_Chemical_Sensing_Review.html | url-status = live The distribution of gases is modelled using statistical methods.{{Cite web | archive-date = April 11, 2009 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090411195056/http://www.aass.oru.se/Research/Learning/publications/Lilienthal_Duckett_2004-RAS-Building_Gas_Concentration_Gridmaps_with_a_Mobile_Robot.html | url-status = live | archive-date = 2010-10-24 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20101024201855/http://www.aass.oru.se/Research/Learning/publications/Stachniss_etal_2009-AuRo-Learning_Gas_Distribution_Models_using_Sparse_Gaussian_Process_Mixtures.html | url-status = live

Two DustCart robots were deployed in the village of Peccioli, Tuscany, from June 15, 2010, to August 7, 2010, providing "door to door separate waste collection on demand". The system was found to be easy to use, providing satisfactory service and increasing recycling. Its main weaknesses were "slow service/traffic problems (and) low bin capacity", and also the existence of "barriers to entry", according to a report by Nicola Canelli presented during ICT 2010 Conference Session, held in Bruxelles, September 27, 2010. As of November 10, 2017, the project seems to have been ended; still, the Dustbot homepage is online to this day, the last "news" update being apparently done in 2011. There is also a reference to the project in a presentation by Paolo Dario at the International Workshop on Autonomics and Legal Implications (Berlin, November 2, 2012).

References

(22 January 2009). "Tomy Dustbot: The original floor cleaning robot".
"Dustbot - a robot designed to clean up our streets (w/video)". www.nanowerk.com.
(May 2010). "DustCart, a Mobile Robot for Urban Environments: Experiments of Pollution Monitoring and Mapping during Autonomous Navigation in Urban Scenarios". Proceedings of International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2010) Workshop on Networked and Mobile Robot Olfaction in Natural, Dynamic Environments.
"Shaping Europe's digital future | Shaping Europe's digital future".
"Autonomous Systems and Robot Companions". www.jura.uni-wuerzburg.de.

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