This article focuses on waste disposal, specifically in how technology can be implemented in current advancements in biodegradation. Researchers at the University of Central Florida have plans to develop a technology similar to what was previously stated, called the Pneu-worm. The Pneu-worm is a robot designed to go through pipes, detect hazardous material, collect a sample of the hazardous material and easily located via GPS. They also developed a Squ-worm, which is similar to the Pneu-worm but can access a wider variety of locations and more efficient in detecting waste. These researchers are likely to use these robots to detect old, yet still active, land mines as a means to curb land mine accident, injury and death. This would be effective in countries that have seen war yet done little to clean up these dangerous weapons such as Cambodia or Vietnam. Eventually, these robots may utilize advances in biologic research and implement plastic-eating bacteria, for example, in clean up.
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