Construction of a coastal drift litter collection system utilizing humanoid robots

Pirika, Inc.

Corporate Vision

"Overcome every environmental problem through science and technology"

By 2040, we will reverse the amount of waste flowing into nature and the amount of waste collected, passing on a sustainable and beautiful planet to the next generation.

Social Issues the Company Confronts

Pirika is tackling the global social issue of waste flowing into nature, which threatens the global environment and people's lives.
Through the trash collection SNS "Pirika," which operates in over 130 countries worldwide, we promote the collection of over 400 million garbage items, and operate businesses utilizing science and technology from both measurement and countermeasures, such as the AI-based street litter visualization "Takanome" and microplastic investigation "Albatross." By implementing these systems in society, they aim to structurally solve the waste outflow problem.

Business Overview

Based on humanoid robots, Pirika will develop coastal drifting garbage collection robots equipped with "garbage recognition" and "grasping/transporting" functions by integrating Pirika's proprietary AI waste recognition technology.
In coastal and remote island regions where labor shortages are a problem, they will verify the feasibility of sustainable cleaning systems using robots and develop a system that can be deployed to a wide range of municipalities as a new cleaning model operable even with a small number of people.

Pirika's beach debris collection robot (conceptual image)