Unmanned Floating Waste Collecting Robot by Akib et al., 2019

Remediation Strategy

Collection

Plastic Type

Macroplastics

Invention Category

Drones and Robots

Used?

Included in analysis?

Yes

Location Invented

Bangladesh

Year^*

2019

Description

Water robot with 2 propellers and a conveyor belt arrangement guiding the trash to a collection box.

Effectiveness or Ecological Impact

Peer-reviewed Effectiveness

It can collect trash weighing up to 10 kg. It can clean an area of about 3000 square centimeters drawing only 45 watts from the battery and can work for four hours continuously without charging (Akib et al., 2019).

References

Akib, A., Tasnim, F., Biswas, D., Binte Hashem, M., Rahman, K., Bhattacharjee, A., & Anowarul Fattah, S. (2019). Unmanned Floating Waste Collecting Robot. 2019 IEEE Region 10 Conference.

* Year designates the year invented; if the year invented was unavailable, the earliest year that an article about the technology was published was used.