Robotic design for automated garbage collection: first prototype

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In 2025, Osaka will host a major world exposition centered on the theme of ”Designing Future Society for Our Lives” where new technologies will be showed. This paper showcases our first prototype of a garbage collecting robot which took first place in a garbage collection tournament organized in the Nakano-Shima event in Osaka in December 2021. This first prototypes focuses on an easy to use remote control approach meant to be used when the automated robot fails to complete the task on its own. One of the main benefit of our design is the usage of an universal gripper for garbage manipulation. In this paper, we will describe the different parts of the robots as well as the design choices made for this first protoype.