{
  "id": 226643,
  "title": "🧹 From Urban Gardens to Clean Streets: Building a Decentralized Robot Ecosystem with MyZubster and Monero\"",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/06/from-urban-gardens-to-clean-streets-building-a-decentralized-robot",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-08-06T15:53:36.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Dev.to",
    "slug": "dev-to",
    "url": "https://dev.to/danielioni/from-urban-gardens-to-clean-streets-building-a-decentralized-robot-ecosystem-with-myzubster-and-3hba"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "From urban gardens to clean streets, a decentralized robot ecosystem has been crafted by MyZubster and Monero. Starting with a vision to map urban gardens, the project has expanded into an intricate system connecting IoT sensors, robots, and communities. The journey began with an idea to create a map for urban gardens, but it soon became evident that a more comprehensive system was required, incorporating real-time soil health monitoring, automated irrigation, decentralized payments, and community connections.\n\nThe Urban Garden Map is an interactive platform built using Leaflet.js and a REST API. It allows users to register their gardens, with features such as geolocation, CRUD operations, and search functionality by name and city. Arduino sensors monitor soil conditions like pH, EC, temperature, and humidity, which are stored in MongoDB for analysis and reporting.\n\nIn the realm of the robot ecosystem, three software robots have been designed to automate various tasks. AgricoloBot serves as the garden assistant, monitoring soil health, generating reports, and offering recommendations. The Robot Arm is a four-degree-of-freedom physical gardener, capable of tasks like watering, planting, analyzing, and harvesting. Meanwhile, the CleanStreetBot is a street cleaning robot that reports waste with geolocation, automates zone cleaning, and generates reports for municipalities. Additional robots, RecicloBot, PuliziaBot, and CompostBot, focus on recycling and waste management, monitoring containers, optimizing collection routes, tracking composting, and managing organic waste.\n\nTo facilitate automated payments, MyZubster employs an escrow system: 85% goes to the robot owner, 2% to the MyZubster platform, 8% to the Bosco Community Fund, and 5% to referrers, if applicable. This decentralized payment system utilizes Monero (XMR) for privacy and MYZ (Tari token) for ecosystem rewards.\n\nCollaborations with Rimini's Comune and various organizations such as Anthea S.r.l., Futura Ambiente, and Hera Group have been established. The initiative aims to pilot the project with the installation of 40 new urban gardens and IoT sensors at Parco della Biodiversità in Rimini.\n\nThe project has already made significant progress, with five bounties completed, 0.14 XMR earned, 1000 MYZ earned, six API endpoints developed, and contributions from over 25 GitHub issues. The future holds plans for the expansion of the ecosystem to other Italian cities, including the launch of EVA IONI, the physical robot designed for urban gardens. MyZubster encourages everyone to get involved through GitHub, bounties, documentation, and by following their blogs, X and LinkedIn accounts.",
  "summary": "What started as a vision for mapping urban gardens has evolved into something much bigger. Over the past weeks, we've built a complete decentralized ecosystem that connects IoT sensors, robots, and communities using Monero (XMR) and MYZ tokens. The Journey: From Gardens to Streets It all began with a simple idea: create a map for urban gardens. But we quickly realized that a map alone wasn't…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": "This decentralized robot ecosystem blurs traditional boundaries between urban planning, community engagement, and environmental sustainability, enabling cities to integrate green spaces, waste management, and innovative technology.",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}