Garbatrage: for sustainable robotics

Robotics funding for October, Agility Robotics, Amazon and more robots.

“Recapturing Product as Material Supply: Hoverboards as Garbatrage,” by Ilon Mandel and Wendy Ju received an honorable mention at the Association for Computing Machinery conference on Designing Interactive Systems in July.

Remember the fleet of trash robots in New York City? They were largely sourced from old hoverboards, leading the paper authors to dev…