As It Happens6:35New Yorkers treat these remote-controlled ‘robot’ garbage bins like people, say researchers
A waste bin and a recycling bin, both perched on top of robotic wheeled disks, roll between tables in Brooklyn’s Albee Square.
They’ve helped make throwing away trash more convenient for passersby — but the robo-bins are also part of an experiment studying how humans interact with them.
The bots belong to a team of research students from Cornell University. Members of the team operate the robots remotely — usually from somewhere nearby in the square — and monitor their interactions with help from a camera that’s fixed to each bin.
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