Design Summary & Reader Response (Analysis) Draft 3
In the article “A Little Robot That Cleans the Beach, One Butt at a Time” (2021) written by Monica Gonderman, states that an Artificial Intelligence (AI) beach buggy robot named BeachBot in short for BB, has a very distinct goal, which is to clean up cigarette butts after the smokers discard it on the beach. Gonderman claims that the BeachBot “measuring about 2.5 feet wide”, helps to pick “some of the 4.5 trillion cigarette butts”, “10 cigarette butts in 30 minutes”, discarded on the beach with ‘its two gripper arms’ and storing them into its storage section and unload manually later. Gonderman states that toxic chemicals and microplastics are dangerous to sea creatures, especially when the "chemical" leak from the cigarette butt filter. Therefore, to attempt to save the situation, BeachBot creators Edwin Bos and Martijn Lukaart, co-founders of TechTics, “put the project into motion”. Gonderman also mentions that the BeachBot recognizes the cigarette butts by various im...