Trash-Eating Robots
It has become common knowledge that our oceans are filled with garbage. Broken objects, used plastic bottles and so on fill our beaches and cover the ocean floor, doing immense damage to ocean creatures. Many individuals and organizations are working to remove this garbage and recent technological developments have given them a new tool to do so: trash-eating robots.
Robots of various shapes have been designed to collect garbage that they find floating in the ocean. For example, the French company IADYS has developed what it calls the jellyfishbot.
Most of the garbage in the oceans comes down rivers.
The Interceptor is completely solar-powered and operates on its own, which minimizes the need for human involvement. Robots are able to clean up large amounts of garbage without humans struggling with beach cleanup by hand.
| A．It isn’t just about removing the garbage from the ocean’s surface. |
| B．Hopefully, they can be a big part of the solution to ocean pollution. |
| C．This small robot gathers up everything it encounters, including gasoline and oil. |
| D．For larger, more open areas, a much larger robot called the Interceptor has a similar function. |
| E．If all goes well, they’re hoping to expand the number of robots and take the technology to other waterways in need of cleanup. |
| F．Cleaning up trash that litters the ocean is good, but to keep the oceans clean, new garbage must be stopped from getting there. |
