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This is a fantastic example of building on the work of others, then 10x’ing the possibilities.<\/p>\n

Way back in 2013, Japanese automotive engineer Minoru Kurata invented a Smart Trash Can. It used Microsoft’s Kinect sensor, a motion-tracking device invented for the Xbox, to detect when a piece of trash was thrown in front of it. It beamed this information to a motorized trash can that would whiz over and catch the trash.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

While Kurata expressed interest in commercializing it, the project never went anywhere.<\/p>\n

Fast-forward to now. HTX Studio<\/a> is a China-based engineering and technology team that develops innovative projects purely for social media content. The drawback to Kurata’s design, they reckon, is that it relied on a wall-mounted sensor, greatly limiting the trash can’s range. This being 2025, they thus built a small army of trash cans, each with their own camera and small computer running machine-learning software.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Each can is equipped with three powerful motors. Between that, the camera and the computer, the can is able to quickly zip over to catch thrown trash.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

They then built a rotating dock that allows the cans to charge.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Most impressively, they designed and built an automated bag changer. Their contraption removes full bags from the can, and heat-seals them shut before dumping them into a container. A fresh bag is then installed in the can.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

The full video is worth a watch; the group has a good sense of humor, and shows some of the entertaining variants they built, including a trash-talking can that denies you buckets, like an NBA player, and a punitive can that disciplines you with projectiles if you carelessly spill trash.<\/p>\n

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As frivolous as the project may seem, I think it could have real-world applications. If the cans were off-road capable, for instance, they could be useful for crop gardening and yardwork chores. What I wouldn’t give to be able to pick rocks out of my garden, throw them over my shoulder and have a roving ‘bot collect them. <\/p>\n

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