Your Roomba’s lazy beach cousin has finally arrived in Boao, China, and it’s reportedly cleaning sand six to ten times faster than human workers. These fully autonomous, zero-emission robots are now patrolling the sands of Hainan, using high-precision sensors to distinguish between seashells and cigarette butts as part of a new smart sanitation pilot program. The future of keeping tourist spots clean just got a lot more efficient and a little less human.
