Each week, we spotlight a cool innovation recommended by some of the industry's top tech writers. This week's pick is a river-cleaning robot.
A "waterborne version of the Roomba" vacuum cleaner is going to help clean up debris in the Chicago River this summer, said Luke Dormehl at Digital Trends. TrashBot is a remote-controlled raft the size of a kickboard that is able "to pick up trash in its immediate vicinity, and then ferry this to a collection point on the riverbank, where it can be later removed."
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