Final Summary Reader's Response
The article “A Little Robot That Cleans the Beach, One Butt at a Time” (2021) by Gonderman discusses about an Artificial Intelligence (AI) beach buggy robot named BeachBot in short for BB. BB has a very distinct goal, which is to clean up all cigarette butts on the beach. However, as stated in the article, in the midst of the World Cleanup Day in September 2020, the BB was only able to scoop up 10 cigarette butts in 30 minutes. BB's aim is to be able to keep up with cleaning the 4.5 trillion cigarettes unethically thrown per year. As cigarette butts are seen being thrown unethically, Mother Earth will be further damaged. In order to stop and reduce the harmful impacts, BB robots and other forms of AI will progress and aims to clean up beaches of cigarette butts despite the fact that these devices might also produce its carbon footprints. Firstly, BB's robot specifications and its ability to detect cigarette butts will be the start to a cleaner beach which is supported by Go