Summary Reader Response Draft 1

 In the article “A Little Robot That Cleans the Beach, One Butt at a Time”(2021), 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. The article mentions 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 at a later time.


The article states that the toxic chemicals and microplastics are dangerous to sea creatures, especially when the toxins leak from the cigarette butt filter. Therefore, in order to attempt to save the situation, BeachBot creators Edwin Bos and Martijn Lukaart, co-founders of TechTics, “put the project into motion”.


The article also mentions that the BeachBot recognizes the cigarette butts by various images of it only on the sand. The BeachBot is also assisted by other small robots which will update BeachBot on the whereabouts of the cigarette butts.


In conclusion, the BeachBot is only the start of creating an unsoiled environment.


References


Monica Gonderman. (2021). https://www.motortrend.com/news/beachbot-ai-robot-techtics-cleans-cigarette-butts-beach/

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