by Walther Ploos van Amstel
A new milestone in the Roboat project. On April 30, Deputy Mayor Everhardt officially put the new slewing crane at Marineterrein Amsterdam into operation. This launches the tests of the full-scale prototype of Roboat at Marineterrein Amsterdam Living Lab.
Researchers at MIT and AMS Institute have developed an alternative strategy for garbage collection in the historic center of Amsterdam: Waste Streams part of the Roboat project. The Amsterdam Canals are still marred by curbside trash. By bringing back the original purpose of the canals (access to the inner city for transport and collection of goods) the …