BeBot

A tracked beach robot that sifts sand 10 cm deep for cigarette butts, bottle caps and microplastics — 100% electric, near-silent, and steered by remote from up to 150 m away.

It screens a 130 cm-wide swath at up to 3,000 m² per hour into a 100-litre tray, runs up to 3 hours per charge on batteries topped up by solar panels, and doubles as a workhorse — raking seaweed, levelling sand and towing loads up to 400 kg. BeBots work beaches from Lake Tahoe and the Great Lakes to Bali and Bahrain.