Autonomous litter-picking rover · in development

The park cleans itself now.

LITTERA patrols green spaces the way a robot mower does: lane by lane, on a schedule, back to its dock. It doesn’t cut grass. It spots litter, picks each piece, and bins it.

Built in Ireland · designed for councils, Tidy Towns groups and grounds teams
Site A · riverside green 100% PATROL READY
plotted path patrolled litter road · followed trees · woven lake · danger zone cleared · remembered
The idea

It works like the robots you already trust.

Robot mowers quietly keep thousands of Irish lawns cut. Robot vacuums cover millions of floors, dock themselves, and get on with it. LITTERA brings that same patient, methodical behaviour to the one job neither of them does: picking litter up off the ground.

BEHAVIOUR

Methodical, not random

A geofenced patch is covered lane by lane, the same disciplined pattern a mower cuts. Nothing missed, nothing done twice.

BEHAVIOUR

Self-managing

Battery low, bin full, patrol done? The rover returns to its dock, recharges, and resumes where it stopped. design goal · self-emptying dock

SAFETY

Contained & careful

Geofenced to its patch, obstacle-aware, physical and wireless stop switches. It halts the moment anything is unclear.

On patrol

The loop it runs, all day.

01 / See

It scans the lane ahead.

A low camera sweeps the ground in front of the rover, finding litter against grass, gravel and leaves. Every piece it spots is logged before the arm even moves.

detected
02 / Plan

Every pick is planned first.

Before the arm moves an inch, the rover plots the exact approach to the piece: where to stop, how to reach, which way to lift. Nothing is improvised over a live gripper.

03 / Pick

It reaches, grips, lifts.

The arm follows the plan: a smooth, force-bounded reach to the piece, a gentle grip, a clean lift. It handles a bottle, a can, a wrapper, or a needle without crushing or dropping.

force‑bounded
04 / Bin

Into the onboard bin.

The piece drops through a sprung flap into the rover's own bin. Sharps go in the same way, never touched by hand. The count ticks up, logged with a time and a place.

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05 / Repeat

Back on the lane, logging.

The rover returns to the exact lane it left and carries on, piece after piece, cell after cell, until the patch is covered. Every pick becomes a line in a report you can hand to a committee.

08:14 · can 08:15 · bottle 08:15 · wrapper

Battery low or bin full? The rover breaks off, docks, sorts itself out, and picks the patrol back up at the exact lane it left.

The gap in the market

The litter nothing else catches.

Street sweepers need pavement. Mowers shred what they roll over. Volunteers burn out. LITTERA is built for exactly the litter every other system leaves behind.

SMALL

The tiny stuff

Cigarette butts, caps, tabs: too small for sweepers, invisible in grass. The vision model finds them one by one.

OFF-PATH

Off the beaten path

Wheeled sweepers stop where the pavement ends. LITTERA patrols the grass, the verges, the corners where litter actually collects.

SHARPS

Needles, without hands

Hypodermic needles picked and binned with zero human contact. For grounds staff, that is the difference that matters most.

PRECISE

One piece at a time

A precision grasp, not bulk suction. It takes the crisp packet and leaves the wildflowers.

Who it’s for

Built for the people who keep places clean.

Litter collection is endless, bending-heavy, and expensive in staff hours. A patrol rover doesn’t replace a grounds team. It takes the dullest, most repetitive part of the job off their backs.

HOURS

Staff hours back

Crews stop stooping for cans and butts. Skilled people get their time back for skilled work.

SAFETY

Safer shifts

Less bending, fewer sharps handled directly, and off-peak patrols nobody has to staff.

PROOF

Evidence on paper

Every pick logged with time and place. Heatmaps and reports for Tidy Towns entries, audits and committees.

QUIET

Quiet & electric

Early-morning patrols with no engine noise and no emissions, before the first walkers arrive.

County & city councils Tidy Towns groups Parks & grounds teams Campuses, venues & resorts
Straight answers

Where the build stands.

We’d rather under-promise. Here is exactly where LITTERA is, and the bar it must clear before it ever enters a park.

NOW
Proving the pick on the bench The arm must clear a hard bar (reliably capturing the most awkward litter from real grass) before anything gets wheels. Every attempt is logged; the camera, not the builder, judges success.
NEXT
Field trials on real ground Wind, glare, wet grass, slopes: the mobility platform and patrol behaviour tested where litter actually lives.
THEN
Council pilots, with data Scheduled patrols on a real site, weekly litter reports, and success measured in numbers we agree up front.
Pilot programme

Put a rover on your green.

We’re taking early conversations with councils, Tidy Towns groups and grounds teams now, so the first field pilots start on sites where they’ll matter.

Direct line: +353 87 434 8585

What a pilot includes
  • A site survey and a geofenced patrol plan for your green
  • Scheduled patrols at the hours that suit the site
  • A weekly litter report: what was picked, where, when
  • Success metrics agreed before the rover arrives
  • A direct line to the people building it
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