Summer is beach season, and for those times when people leave litter and other waste behind, there are two separate projects to develop robots to clean up after them. Plus: Sunny, the radiated tortoise at the Dallas Zoo, gets a personalized, hand-built scratching station for those hard-to-get itches.
This beach-cleaning robot sifts sand for the tiny plastics that humans miss (Fast Company)
BeachBot, an AI-powered robot that cleans cigarette butts at the beach (Designboom)
Watch This Lucky Tortoise Enjoy His Homemade Scatcher Device Crafted From Broom Heads (Good News Network)
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