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Robot recycles pet poop

Meet “Sum,” Tohoku Kankyo’s new robot trashcan that will take your old food and pet poop and turn it into eco-friendly compost:

insert pet poop

Using some sort of fancy bio substance that breaks down garbage and takes away smelliness, the Sum can process about 600 grams of poop and/or food each day.

robot poop recycler

They retail for about $900, and require “bio” refills every 4 months or so.

[hat tip to Ken Y-N]

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6 comments - What do you think? Posted by James - May 6, 2009 at 6:26 pm

Categories: Technology Tags: eco, gadgets, green, japan, poop, robot, robotics, tech

http://ourmaninabiko.blogspot.com/ Our Man in Abiko

$900 seems awful steep for a compost heap in a plastic box. Whatever will these robots think of next?
Kitty

I’d poop in that can!
Blacknimbus

http://the-gadgeteer.com/2009/05/05/catgenie-self-flushing-self-washing-cat-box-review/#comments

This might be a solution if you have a cat in the house.
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Cat and dog poop are terrible fertilizers. Any carnivore feces is too acidic.
http://witzl.blogspot.com/ MaryWitzl

I’ve got one of these back in Scotland. Not quite as pretty, and a lot larger, but cheap. The fancy bio stuff is lime, and you use it with elbow grease: free aerobic exercise!

It’s called a compost bin, and you only need a tiny bit of space for it. It’s not cute, though: no one in Japan would buy one.
khellycarbaugh

Awesome invention, it’s good that technology is making something for the environment, composting food waste and pet poop using this composters robot will be very convenient for us.

Robot recycles pet poop

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