Opossum
Opossum Cleaning Robot by Suzhou University of Technology is a winner of the 2025 Bronze A' Design Award in Robotics, Automaton and Automation Design.
Opossum is a Bronze A' Design Award winner, a much prestigious recognition granted to outstanding designs distinguished by creativity, ingenuity, and astuteness.
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This street cleaning robot transforms urban sanitation with eco-friendly automation. Operating at night, it cleans under parked cars using a mantis inspired retractable suction head. Advanced sensors ensure safe, optimized navigation without manual input. Solar powered by day, it cuts emissions and fossil fuel use. Quieter than traditional methods, it eases sanitation workers' burdens while enhancing urban peace. This design sets a new standard for smart, sustainable city cleaning.
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Opossum by Suzhou University of Technology
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Cleaning Robot
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Robotics, Automaton and Automation Design Award Winner in 2025.
Bronze Winner
Opossum Cleaning Robot
Opossum is a Bronze A' Design Award winner, a much prestigious recognition granted to outstanding designs distinguished by creativity, ingenuity, and astuteness. Bronze winners are amply skillful and strikingly creative artifacts that authenticate the vast experience, imagination, and resourcefulness of their designers. Opossum is expected to be a highly-regarded, admired, and cherished object that is notably professional and innovative. This Bronze A' Design Award-winning design incorporates best practices in art, science, design, and technology, and is excellent for its attention to detail. Opossum splendidly satisfies needs, touches desires, charms feelings, and appeals to curiosity.
Winner Designer
Suzhou University of Technology
Zhang Weiwei is the dean of the Product Design of Suzhou University of Technology, He takes senior member of the China Digital Art Design Expert Committee and the member of Design Teaching Steering Committee of Yunnan ProvinceIn China. In the past few years, he had won 3 Red-dot Awards personally. Guiding students to win more than 30 awards in international and domestic professional competitions.
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Suzhou University of Technology
Founded in 1958, Suzhou University of Technology (SZUT) is a provincial full - time undergraduate institution known for training applied talents. SZUT has two campuses, Donghu and Dongnan, covering an area of 120 hectares. It offers exclusive apartments for foreign teachers and international students. SZUT consists of 53 undergraduate majors across 12 schools, covering nine disciplines including engineering, science, literature, economics, management, history, law, education, and art. With over 18,200 students and nearly 1,200 staff members, more than 250 hold doctorates and about 450 have senior professional titles. SZUT has always been committed to serving the local community, developing interactively with the regional economy and social undertakings. It has established several professional schools with renowned enterprises, such as the Elevator Engineering School, International Service Engineering School, Photovoltaic Technology School, and Automobile Engineering School.
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