This new robot cleans Ontario beaches like a Zamboni

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No, that’s not a Zamboni on the shoreline. It’s a BeBot — Canada’s first remote-controlled beach cleaning robot.

The unique device was unveiled this week by the not-for-profit group Pollution Probe, which plans to dispatch the contraption this summer to various beaches across Ontario.

The vacuum-like robot — which covers 3,000 square meters per hour — targets food wrappers, bottles, cigarette butts and plastic fragments.

Melissa De Young, the CEO of Pollution Probe, joins us on tonight’s episode of ‘Closer Look’ to explain how the robot works, why it’s important — and what beach-goers say when they spot it.

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