The Xeros Waterless Washing Machine

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Xeros – The Waterless Washing Machine Could Save Gallons

A washing machine which does not use water to clean clothes? That could solve half of the world’s water woes. The machine under development by the U.K based Xeros is technically not a zero-water washing machine. But the Xeros washing machine uses just a cup of water per load to clean your dirty laundry.

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The Future of Laundry: No More Water

How to Clean Your Clothes with Plastic: Nylon beads sit in the outer of two nested drums. When both drums rotate, the absorbent beads fall through the mesh of the inner drum to tumble with your laundry, where they dislodge and trap dirt. After the wash cycle finishes, the outer drum stops moving and centripetal force pushes the beads back through the mesh into the outer drum, where they await your next mess. Paul Wootton

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Product Development

The Xeros polymer cleaning process can be applied to numerous cleaning sectors - both commercial and domestic. However, the team's first objective is to build a system for the Commercial laundry sector, designed to wash garment loads up to 20 kg per cycle.

Washing garments with the same cleaning and convenience of conventional washing

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Environment Benefits

Converting from conventional laundry systems will save 90% of the fresh
water associated with washing. Take US domestic washing as an example,
that translates into 1.2 billion tonnes of water saved per year, equivalent to
17 million swimming pools.

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Cost Benefits

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1. Xeros – The Waterless Washing Machine Could Save Gallons
2. The Future of Laundry: No More Water | Popular Science
3. Home - Xeros
4. Product Development - Xeros
5. Research & Development - Environment Benefits - Xeros
6. Research & Development - Cost Benefits - Xeros

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2. Apartment Therapy Unplugged | The Xeros Waterless Washing Machine
3. New Washing Machine Cleans With Plastic, Not Water

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Networked and Cooperating Robots for Urban Hygiene

The DustBot project is aimed at designing, developing, testing and demonstrating a system for improving the management of urban hygiene based on a network of autonomous and cooperating robots, embedded in an Ambient Intelligence infrastructure.

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Dustbot the street cleaning robot

What is believed to be the world's first robot that comes to take away rubbish from your house when you want it to has been unveiled in Italy.

The Dustbot can be summoned to your address through a mobile phone any time of the day.

The robot works with a combination of GPS navigation and with a gyroscope to keep it upright. There are also a number of sensors on the machine so it does not bump into anything.

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Dustbot Wades Through Narrow European Streets to Collect Garbage

The Dustbot is a midsized robot that can manoeuvre itself and collect garbage and also analyze the surrounding air. It measures sulphur oxide, benzene, nitrogen oxide and other such harmful chemicals in the air. It comes with a touch screen which allows the user to tell what kinda garbage he is being given.

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DustBot

Networked and Cooperating Robots for Urban Hygiene Coolection of videos taken during the demonstration in Pontedera, Peccioli e Massa

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1. Dustbot
2. BBC NEWS | Special Reports | Dustbot the street cleaning robot
3. Dustbot Wades Through Narrow European Streets to Collect Garbage | Trends Updates
4. YouTube - DustBot

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1. Video: Dustbot takes out the Eurotrash
2. Dustbot: a real-life Wall-E you can text