The Mirror

One-of-a-kind robotic shark can collect 500kg of plastic waste a day from London's waters

A plastic-eating robot shark is being deployed into London’s Canary Wharf in a bid to reduce water pollution in the area. Ahead of Global Recycling Day on March 18, the WasteShark can collect up to ...
upnorthlive

Robot to be used this summer to clean plastic from northern Michigan beaches

PETOSKEY, Mich., (WPBN/WGTU) -- Plastic pollution has been a longstanding threat to the Great Lakes. But this summer alongside the usual cleanups, beaches in Antrim, Charlevoix, Emmet and Cheboygan ...
WPXI

Carnegie Mellon recycling robot may help keep costs down by tearing apart old electronics

PITTSBURGH — With prices of everything going up, recycling helps keep prices down. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute are doing what they can by developing a robot that, in ...
London Evening Standard

Robot ‘shark’ is eating plastic waste in London’s Thames river

The battery-powered machine can gather up to 500 kilograms of floating plastic per day — the equivalent of 22,700 plastic bottles — while navigating five kilometres (three miles) of water. Once the ...