Introducing BeBot, the roving robot behind cleaner state park beaches

LANSING

Cigarette butts, discarded food wrappers, pieces of plastic – all items we wish to avoid when we’re at the beach and have our toes in the sand.

Thanks to new technology – a beach-cleaning robot known as BeBot, developed by Niteko Robotics – we’ll be seeing less trash at our beloved inland lake beaches and Great Lakes shorelines.

Several state park beaches are now using the BeBot, an advanced …