The prototype robot called as DustBot are being introduced to collect rubbish from people’s homes in rural areas since big dump trucks and lorries can’t pass over the narrow streets. The Dustbots are Currently being tested in Italian Streets which use combination of GPS navigation and with a gyroscope to keep the work going on. You can call anytime the Dustbot to your house through a phone call to picks up your garbage.
Source: BBC
Alexis Rochas the SCI-Arc professor and architect explains about his SynthE green roof project which he has been completed on the roof of an old Holiday Inn-converted to condominiums.. The green roof will provide vegetable for the restaurant and tenants of the building, 20 types of plants are grown here, rotated by season, most of them are planted and harvested in 90-day cycles.
Rochas explained. “The architect becomes a gardener, the gardener a planner.” Indeed, the entire roof, but for a patch of grass intended for lounging by residents, is planted with various fruits, vegetables, and other edibles for Blue Velvet. Working 90-day crop cycles, the team grows all manner of tomatoes, herbs, greens, berries, wheat grass, even some monster cabbage. “It’s a true, organic experiment, seeing what will grow and succeed.
Source: Treehugger.com
