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Chicago Tribune: Meet the remote-controlled, trash-collecting robot you could soon use to help clean the Chicago River


Chicago Tribune: Meet the remote-controlled, trash-collecting robot you could soon use to help clean the Chicago River

Posted 5/28/2019


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mHUB member, Urban Rivers, as featured in the Chicago Tribune on May 22, 2019. 

People strolling along the Chicago River this summer might spot an unfamiliar watercraft navigating the North Branch.  

In an effort to attack the river’s pollution, Urban Rivers, a Chicago-based environmental nonprofit, plans to dispatch a remote-controlled, trash-collecting robot — Trashbot — near Goose Island, where the group also is helping create wildlife habitat.

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