This company has created an incredible autonomous robot that roams around your yard picking up all of the dog poop it finds. It connects to the cloud to help process the images, and once it finds and detects a dog poop pile, it’ll lower down a mechanical claw to scoop it up. It’s called the Beetl, and it’s battery powered, will auto-recharge on its base when it’s running low, and uses a tandem camera to create boundaries in your yard.
From BirdNote:Birds brighten our lives. We find joy in their songs, inspiration in their soaring flight. They connect us with nature. But sometimes birds connect us a bit too directly with nature. Park under the wrong tree – one where a flock of starlings or grackles comes to roost – and nature may be painted in white on your car so thickly that it takes a trip or two through the carwash just to see through the windshield again. Aside from helping you decide where not to park next time, this messy event raises a scientific question: Why is most of the bird poop we see white? The answer lies in the fact that birds, unlike mammals, don’t produce urine. Instead they excrete nitrogenous wastes in the form of uric acid, which emerges as a white paste. And uric acid doesn’t dissolve in water easily. Hence its ability to stick to your windshield like blobs of white plaster. It appears that drivers of some cars might be asking for trouble. A study in England found that red cars are most likely to be the target of bird droppings, followed by blue and black. Green was the least likely. So be careful where you park. And give that red Mustang a wide berth. Download Transcript
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