Wall-E type cleaning robot in Italy

This little thing is pretty cool. It's called an Dustbot odd name for such a cute looking robot. It can walk around on its own sensor rubbish load it in and when it is full take it to a 'base' for disposal.

It's actually a very complicated piece of machinery and expensive too. The research program of $3.9 million is now in the prototype stage hopefully it will become a reality for a increasing dirty cities. The oval shaped robot can do more than gather dirt it can recycle waste sort it in organic,recycled or just plain waste. The Dustbot aslo has sensors who measure atmospheric pollutants like sulfur oxide,benzene, ozone and nitrogen oxide.

Pretty cool if you ask me there is just one problem it is illegal for robots to move around without human supervision. I never even knew there was such an law making the robot rather obsolete for public use seeing as you can just as well employ a person for the job.