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The Real-Life Trash Robots Who Inspired Wall-E
For the past decade, a lot of our worst trash emergencies have been handled by robots who might just be the forebears of Wall-E. Toxic sludge, dangerous barrels of chemicals, and even the dust poots on your floor are being scrubbed up by semi-autonomous robots. And researchers are working on even more sophisticated bots to reduce the massive pollution build-ups and even more toxic goo we're likely to unleash in the future. Below, we introduce you to six tidy garbage bots whose progeny are likely to inherit the planet. More »