Though the land-and-lake pair are just making waves in Tahoe, the tech has been deployed in other waterways as well. For example, last year, theput up the money to deploy a PixieDrone and BeBot in the Great Lakes Region .
"This not only impacts Great Lakes wildlife, but also the 40 million Americans and Canadians that require the Great Lakes for their drinking water," Lora Shrake of the Council of the Great Lakes Region said in a . "Once collected, the litter is analyzed providing valuable data that allows us to understand the scale of the problem."that a single BeBot costs $55,000, which would make it difficult for conservationists at smaller and less-tony water sources to purchase.
All said, however, the robots are nothing if not cute — and at the very least, a novel solution to an ever-accumulating environmental problem.