A group of Italian folks have created a robot that takes away garbage on demand.

Dustbot is summoned via text message. The robot can hold up to 40kg of garbage, sweep the street and is able to navigate by using maps and GPS. What it actually does with the garbage or where it goes when it takes it away we don’t know, but we really like this idea.

The Dustbot website states:

The DustBot project is aimed at designing, developing, testing and demonstrating a system for improving the management of urban hygiene based on a network of autonomous and cooperating robots, embedded in an Ambient Intelligence infrastructure.

Check out a video in Italian showing off Dustbot here.

Link via (TG Daily)