POLUTO: custom-Polito by Cris Rose

"Poluto was part of a rapid response unit deployed whenever an environmental accident occurred. Working as a team, he and his counterparts would wade into the fray, taking samples and sensor readings as they went. Their heads would change colour to identify different toxins, should their communications give out and housed huge filtration systems to start mopping up the spills."
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POLUTO is a commissioned customed-Polito with Runcible-parts by Cris Rose and it looks abso-stunning, IMHO. Check out more images of Poluto via Cris' flickr-stream.

STORY-CONTINUED: "...A team of 10 could do the work of over 200 human volunteers, with the added benefits of having no need to stop and rest and ensuring no risk to human life.

So successful and popular were these robots, that every town and city has it's own detachment, that while not on call, were free to roam around the populated areas, sucking up pollutants, ejecting sweet scented oxygen and accepting daisies offered by children. "