European Design Upgrade: transnational capacity building

(Archive) Project BeachBot

An AI driven robot hunting for small litter. BeachBot already detects cigarette butts and now asks the help of humans to become smarter.

This project was part of DDW 2020

BeachBot — © TechTics

This project is part of: European Design Upgrade: transnational capacity building

This human-machine interaction concept raises awareness around littering, a worldwide problem with environmental and economic consequences. Humans can help BB via a game app in which they annotate and label litter images. They learn about the impact of littering and train BB’s detection algorithm.

For this project we combine technology with human psychology to be part of the solution. Human-robot interaction is relatively unexplored terrain, but has potential to bring new solutions for stubborn societal issues.

Our prototype was presented durin

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