And now another group of robots using 5G technology has entered the scene: river-cleaning robots. These robots are technically called "unmanned surface vessels," or USVs, and they're designed to ...

A robotic drone is being used to clean up the waterways in Leeds ... in Leeds and there is an amazing amount of wildlife in the river now," Mr Ellison said. "We want to prevent any of that ...

That’s the idea behind [Xieshi Zhang]’s Hydrocleaner, a semi-autonomous river cleaning robot. One current method for removing trash is by remote-controlled boats with nets attached.