This happens to each and everyone of us: you throw a piece of trash at a nearby waste basket and it tosses off the edge and forces you to make that shameful walk to go pick it up and drop it in carefully. Doesn't it?
You only have your own hand-eye coordination skills to blame, but think about it, shouldn't it be the job of the garbage canto collect trash? That certainly seems to be the thought process that led one Japanese inventor to construct a smart trash can that tracks garbage tossed in its general direction and then moves across the floor to catch it.
The "Smart Trashbox" has been created by a modder known as FRP, who custom designed and built almost every component. A concealed wheel base on the bottom gives it a full range of motion, while a Kinect sensor - the go-to device for modders these days - mounted in the room tracks moving objects. The sensor monitors any thing/garbage flying across the room, calculates where it will land, and instantly transmits the data to the waste basket. The final result is that the smart trashbox appears to glide quickly over the floor as it chases after any wayward garbage and catches it.
Right now, FRP is still working on improving the accuracy of the garbage-seeking device, but plans to patent it and possibly bring it to market for consumers. Hopefully this is just one step closer to the robotic garbage cans that sci-fi movies have been promising for years...:)
You only have your own hand-eye coordination skills to blame, but think about it, shouldn't it be the job of the garbage canto collect trash? That certainly seems to be the thought process that led one Japanese inventor to construct a smart trash can that tracks garbage tossed in its general direction and then moves across the floor to catch it.
The "Smart Trashbox" has been created by a modder known as FRP, who custom designed and built almost every component. A concealed wheel base on the bottom gives it a full range of motion, while a Kinect sensor - the go-to device for modders these days - mounted in the room tracks moving objects. The sensor monitors any thing/garbage flying across the room, calculates where it will land, and instantly transmits the data to the waste basket. The final result is that the smart trashbox appears to glide quickly over the floor as it chases after any wayward garbage and catches it.
Right now, FRP is still working on improving the accuracy of the garbage-seeking device, but plans to patent it and possibly bring it to market for consumers. Hopefully this is just one step closer to the robotic garbage cans that sci-fi movies have been promising for years...:)
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