The bins on wheels are part of a Cornell Tech study to better understand how humans interact with robots in public spaces.
Make your contribution now and help Gothamist thrive in 2023.Two trash cans on wheels have been roaming around Downtown Brooklyn’s Albee Square in the early afternoon for the last two weeks, going up to people as they finish their lunch to collect trash. And while they may be pretty good at it, collecting people’s trash isn’t their ultimate purpose.
“I think it’s cute, you know? I know it's needed because there’s always trash,” Trappier said. “I enjoyed it. I was just wondering like, does it really sense me, does it know that I'm by it? So that's why I put my water thing in front of it to see like, and you know, it's on point, it moved and stuff.”
“Robot garbage? Yeah, like that is okay. Robot people? No. So if that's what they are trying to go at, no. We still need people out here to handle certain things,” Keisha said. The robots were deployed in Albee Square in collaboration with local development non-profit Downtown Brooklyn Partnership, which runs the space. And while organization President Regina Myer said it was a welcome initiative, she doesn’t expect roaming trash cans to be the norm anytime soon.
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