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Did you know that cigarette butts are the most littered items on the planet? About 4.5 trillion of them are thrown into the environment every year.
Cigarette butts are full of chemicals that can kill fish, and they have been found in the stomachs of sea turtles, birds and other wildlife. But even though they're everywhere, they often aren't seen because they're so small.
Now, Dutch company TechTics plans to help fix the cigarette problem with its BeachBot. BeachBot, or BB, is a beach-cleaning robot that uses artificial intelligence to find cigarette butts — even if part of the butt is hidden in the sand.
BB has four wheels, two cameras and two arms to pick up cigarette butts. The butts are pulled into a bin inside the 80-centimeter-wide robot.
However, BB still needs help to understand the difference between things like a cigarette butt and a small seashell. So the most interesting part of the idea behind BB, said TechTic's co-founder Edwin Bos, is the way people can help make the robot smarter.
Using an app called Trove, anyone with a smartphone can send BB photos of cigarette butts to help the robot learn to recognize them.

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據統計，每年被隨手丟棄的煙蒂超過4.5兆個。煙蒂充斥著對生物有害的化學物質，然而我們已在海龜、鳥類和其他野生動物的胃裡面發現它們。荷蘭公司TechTics計畫要用它的BeachBot來解決這個香菸問題。 BeachBot又稱為BB，是一款海攤清潔機器人，利用人工智慧來尋找煙蒂——即使部分的煙蒂藏在沙子裡也能找到。人們甚至可以讓這款機器人更聰明，任何擁有智慧型手機的人都可以傳煙蒂的照片給BB，讓此款機器人學習辨識煙蒂。

🌏Words & Phrases
cigarette butt煙蒂
litter亂丟垃圾
artificial intelligence人工智慧

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Article: Engoo Daily News
(https://engoo.com.tw/app/daily-news/article/beach-robot-cleans-up-after-smokers/arMW-vCYEeuIh4cbFTxO4Q)
(https://engoo.com.tw/)


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