From the beach to the water itself, machines are helping remove plastic, pollutants and invasive species. We got up close and personal with these trash-eating robots to learn about how they work and how they fight pollution beyond just cleaning.
The beach-cleaning BeBot
We begin with the BeBot, the fully electric, solar-powered beach-cleaning robot made by The Searial Cleaners we covered a few years ago. We finally got to meet one in person thanks to Eco-Clean Solutions, a cleanup company in Nevada that is putting these ingenious machines to use cleaning Lake Tahoe.
In a full-circle moment, Eco-Clean Solutions CEO JB Harris told us he’d first learned about the BeBot from CNET’s coverage.
JB Harris demonstrates the BeBot for us on one of Lake…
