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Honored to have collected food waste at the AAA Auto Club Auto Expo, showing that even car shows can be sustainable! We’re passionate about making events greener by diverting food waste and contributing to a more sustainable future. If you're hosting an event in Detroit/ the Metro Detroit area let’s work together to make it eco-friendly. Reach out to Scrap Soils ([email protected]) to learn how we can help! #DetroitSustainability #GreenDetroit #DetroitFoodWaste #DetroitEvents #DetroitComposting Ricky Blanding Grace Tate Liana Li

Honored to have collected food waste at the AAA Auto Club Auto Expo, showing that even car shows can be sustainable! We’re passionate about making events greener by diverting food waste and contributing to a more sustainable future. If you're hosting an event in Detroit/ the Metro Detroit area let’s work together to make it eco-friendly. Reach out to Scrap Soils ([email protected]) to learn how we can help! #DetroitSustainability #GreenDetroit #DetroitFoodWaste #DetroitEvents #DetroitComposting Ricky Blanding Grace Tate Liana Li

Happy #MobilityMonday!! Today, I had the pleasure of checking out a mobility demo by Orange Sparkle Ball, Inc. (OSB), one of our most recent OFME grant recipients. OSB launched an autonomous delivery pilot to explore logistics around transporting food waste to a composting facility. This real-world deployment will operate within the City of Detroit’s Transportation Innovation Zone. Special shoutouts to the following partners: Tim Slusser Jim Saber, Refraction AI Intermode OttonomyIO Scrap Soils and @Brother Nature Farm. Thank you for engaging with #Corktown residents and businesses— their participation is essential to improving soil quality, growing fresh produce, and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. #compost #autonomous #mobility #OFME #MichiganMobilityFundingPlatform #GrantAwardee #MobilityMI #MobilityStartsWithMe

This upcoming Thursday July 11th, Orange Sparkle Ball, Inc. will be participating in DRINKS x DESIGN: Equitable Mobility at Dequindre Cut Freight Yard in Detroit, Michigan hosted by Design Core Detroit. Drinks x Design offers an opportunity for creative businesses throughout the city to open their doors and share their work with the public. Attendees come to meet new people, make connections, promote their creative endeavors and learn about other projects in their community. Community engagement is key to our pilot approach at OSB. We are eager to join this event as we are currently engaged with Scrap Soils and Brother Nature Farm, Detroit based companies, for our first pilot surrounding the pickup of food waste. Our intention is to run 4 pilots in the Transportation Innovation Zone established by the Office of Mobility Innovation at The City of Detroit (OMI) so we've been working with OMI to identify community partners as well as working with local neighborhood associations and community groups to recruit interested participants for the pilots. We look forward to networking and continuing to move the needle on the equitable mobility space. Learn more here: https://lnkd.in/gxGhtnhE _ Orange Sparkle Ball was awarded a Real World Deployment Grant from the Michigan Economic Development Corporation's Office of Future Mobility and Electrification! This grant is enabling us to put our Autonomous Robotic Pickup Platform into action through a series of pilots in the Transportation Innovation Zone of Detroit, established by the Office of Mobility Innovation at The City of Detroit. More information on our microsite: https://lnkd.in/ei_jcF-r #designcoredetroit #drinksxdesign #detroitmobility #mobility #mobilityecosystem #detroitroboticpickupplatform #orangesparkleball #TIZ #innovation

Thank you, Orange Sparkle Ball, for the exciting collaboration on this innovative project. We're thrilled to partner with Brother Nature Farm and the OSB team to explore the future of autonomous food waste pickup. This pilot is a significant step towards bridging technology and Detroit's green space. #roboticpickupdetroit #detroitmobility #mobility #pilot #innovation #composting #autonomousdelivery #autonomy #groundrobot #detroit

"Those sidewalk bots taking to the streets in Detroit’s Corktown neighborhood may not be delivering pizzas, or a Starbucks coffee order — they could be carrying banana peels, onion skins or even used coffee grounds." Check out Government Technology's article on our Detroit Robotic Pickup Platform with Scrap Soils, OttonomyIO, Brother Nature Produce, Intermode, and Refraction AI. Orange Sparkle Ball was awarded a Real World Deployment Grant from the Michigan Economic Development Corporation's Office of Future Mobility and Electrification. This grant is enabling us to put our Autonomous Robotic Pickup Platform into action through a series of pilots in the Transportation Innovation Zone of Detroit, established by the Office of Mobility Innovation at The City of Detroit. This platform is beginning with a pilot focused on the pickup of food waste for composting in Detroit’s North Corktown neighborhood. This Detroit pilot is a way to build knowledge around the logistics of autonomous pickup and delivery, as well as community engagement. North Corktown Neighborhood Association (NCNA) “We understand, at the community or ecosystem level, how to place these platforms and series of pilots so that they get the most traction,” said Meaghan Kennedy, OSB founder. Read more here: https://lnkd.in/egeVjS9i Stay up to date with OSB's Detroit Robotic Pickup Platform: https://lnkd.in/ei_jcF-r #roboticpickupdetroit #detroitmobility #mobility #pilot #innovation #composting #autonomousdelivery #autonomy #groundrobot #detroit