ABi - Autonomous Beachcomber

Man-made waste is a death-sentence for many beach inhabitants. Not only from the physical material and the toxins released, but also from our efforts to industrially rake-clean our beachfronts into pristine stretches of sand void of flora and fauna.

 

ABi uses machine vision to first identify un-natural objects, and then remove only what shouldn't be there, leaving the natural habitat untouched. 

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I developed a prototype system for the evolution of machine vision code to run on a Raspberry Pi, and then built a life-size model of the robotic system.