The Great Lakes are Awash in Plastic. Can Robots and Drones Help?

single use plastic bottle in sand marine trash on 2021 08 29 03 54 35 utc scaled The Great Lakes are Awash in Plastic. Can Robots and Drones Help?
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Takeaways:

  • Robot-like drones are being deployed to filter plastic particles from sand and water.
  • These robots are roaming popular Great Lakes beaches to clean them up and draw attention to plastic pollution.
  • The two robots being used are the BeBot and PixieDrone, which can filter between 25- 42 gallons of debris at a time.

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