Your Roomba’s sun-seeking cousin has officially clocked in at Boao, China, and it’s already putting the local maintenance crews to shame. These fully autonomous, zero-emission droids are currently patrolling the Hainan shoreline, reportedly sifting through the sand six to ten times faster than their human counterparts.
Equipped with high-precision sensors clever enough to tell the difference between a discarded cigarette butt and a stray seashell, these robots are the stars of a new smart sanitisation pilot programme. It turns out the future of keeping the world’s tourist hotspots pristine isn’t just greener—it’s significantly more efficient, even if it is a little less human.
