Volvo Working On Robotic Trash Collectors

Read about it here. The robots would collect the trash cans to bring to the dump truck. But in many neighborhoods currently you take your trash can to the curb. Then the truck comes along and a sort of forklift comes down from the truck, operated by the driver, to pick up the can. So an autonomous vehicle with cameras and image processing could have computer logic to guide the trash can grabber. Wheeled robots would be an improvement. They could cruise up a driveway way to grab the trash cans and so would certainly avoid the problem of forgetting to put out the trash at the curb. Though the robots would get attacked by some dogs. I used to...
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