A group of European companies and universities have collaborated to produce a series of multifunctional robots for urban hygiene tasks. With abilities ranging from door-to-door garbage pickup and ...

Long before the sterile Roomba arrived, there was a more anthropomorphic cleaning slave known as the Tomy Dustbot. Released in 1985, the Dustbot is claimed to be the first robot to feature a built-in ...

Recycling takes to the road. Good urban hygiene is a must for any 21st-century city, but it isn’t easy. Enter DustBot—a real-life Wall-E robot that can sniff out garbage, pick it up and drop it off—on ...

(Nanowerk News) It sounds like something from a science fiction film, but the concept of robots cleaning our streets is becoming a reality with what is believed to be a world first. DUSTBOT ...

Push up those Armani shades and tighten your white trousers, the Dustbot is coming to wash the scum off the streets like a Segway riding Travis Bickle. Give him a call from your mobile and the Dustbot ...

TECNALIA Technological Corporation has introduced innovative robots at Euskotren's station in Atxuri (Bilbao) and which are mobile, multifunctional, collaborative, autonomous and polyvalent, suitable ...

Call up DustCart from your cell phone, and it will roll along on its Segway base to your home, text you to let you know it has arrived, and thrust forth a receptacle for your garbage, which it then ...

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZx5nQre3IE&hl=en&fs=1] Assuming you are European and never have more than a head-sized bag of garbage to throw away, this ...

Aren’t you a little tired of seeing nothing but Roombas for sale at woot.com? Sure, the little robots do a great job cleaning up after us filthy humans, but come on! Robots need faces! Why is it that ...

A group of Italian researchers are testing a way to replace the garbage truck with a cute robot that can collect trash on demand. The robot called DustCart has been zipping through the streets of the ...