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Italy's Trash Robot is a Real-Life Wall-E Posted by TreeHugger 1 year 21 weeks ago - Tags: 
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In the computer generated waste land of Wall-E, a garbage-collecting robot is the last survivor on Earth, hoarding quaint treasures from the trash in a dogged attempt to find some slice of happiness amidst the ecological devastation left behind by consumerism. In real-life Italy, where a noxious mafia-run waste industry has turned some landscapes post-apocalyptic, scientists have proposed a new solution to picking up the trash: the googly-eyed Dust Cart robot.
It may not solve Italy's garbage problems, but its inventors hop...
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