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Beach Cleaning Robot the BeBot can Sift the Sand for Tiny Plastics that We might have Missed Meet the BeBot, a machine created to help clean up microplastics on the beach. The robot was a collaboration between 4ocean and Poralu Marine for areas that have relatively clean beaches but large amounts of microplastics.The BeBot is powered by batteries connected to a solar panel, which makes it quiet as it travels back and forth on a beach. It is also able to cover an area roughly three-fifths the size of a football field each hour! As for its sifting process, the machine sorts through the top layer of sand through a screen, getting any item that is larger than a square centimeter. While it takes a person to sort through the different objects the robot got during its cleanup process, it is much faster than manually looking through each part of the beach. 4ocean is currently testing the robot in some of the most plastic-polluted beaches on the planet in Hawaii. The BeBot is ‘no means a solution for the ocean plastic crisis,’ says Alex Schulze, co-founder and CEO of 4ocean to Fast Company. The company, however, hopes to use the machine ‘to collect that plastic that exists as well as raise awareness to how that plastic is getting on the coastlines and in the ocean.’Image credit: 4ocean #Machine #TheBeBot #Recycling #Beaches #4ocean #PoraluMarine #BeachCleanup #Technology

Samsung’s Robot Chef Brings Automated Assistance to your Kitchen! Samsung has introduced the Samsung Bot Chef, a machine that can help people prepare their meals!According to the official press release, the Bot Chef can ‘read, understand, and divide up the tasks in regular recipes, and use tools that you normally use.’ It uses sensors to look and find things in the kitchen, and if it can’t find or reach for something, the machine will ask for help. Now that’s like having a companion in the kitchen!This product concept is intelligent enough to slow down or stop completely if it detects a person’s presence near it, and it will wait for the person to move away before continuing its tasks. In addition to having multiple sensors, the Bot Chef has two Saram arms that hold and manipulate different kitchen tools. One of the highlights of Samsung’s newest machine is that it can learn new skills by downloading them from ‘a skills ecosystem.’ This means that it can learn how to find and use non-smart appliances to help people in the kitchen, from blending a soup to making a cup of coffee-- the Bot Chef holds a great deal of potential!Image credit: Samsung#Samsung #BotChef #Machine #Robot #Technology #Kitchenware #Cooking #ArtificialIntelligence #AI 