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NatureCleanerBot: Design of a Sustainable Smart Robotic System for Outdoor Plastic Waste Collection
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Researchers built a self-driving robot that can find and collect plastic waste outdoors without human help, tackling pollution before it breaks down. This matters because plastic left in nature breaks into microplastics that end up in our water, food, and eventually our bodies, so removing it early may help protect long-term human health.
The rapid increase in plastic pollution poses a serious threat to global ecosystems, rendering traditional manual waste collection methods inefficient and hazardous, necessitating automation. This paper describes an autonomous mobile system, NatureCleanerBot, for the...
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