'Pooper-scooper' drone designed to clean up dog poo

A Dutch startup is set to release a fleet of'drones' to combat the 220 million pounds of dog droppings left on the Netherlands' streets each year. Called Dogdrones, the vehicles will work together as a team to detect and scoop up the poop. The aerial drone is fitted with cameras and thermal energy technology that transmits GPS coordinates of the feces to a rolling robot on the ground that immediately leaves its hub to clean up the waste. A Dutch startup is set release a fleet of'drones' to combat the 220 million pounds of dog droppings left on the Netherlands's streets each year. Watchdog 1, uses a camera and thermal imaging to scan the environment for canine waste. The thermal imaging will then crate a heat map showing the location, which is translated into GPS coordinates and sent to Patroldog 1 – the ground robot.