Your car drives itself. Your vacuum maps your lounge. Your mower trims the lawn at dawn. So why are you still dragging a 100-litre plastic box down the driveway at 9:47 pm every Thursday?
Every week, 28 million Australians shuffle in dressing gowns, half-drunk, half-asleep, wheeling a bin they forgot about 10 minutes before collection.
You heard the truck on the next street. Now you're running down the driveway in thongs and a bathrobe, rain or shine.
You're in Bali. Your bin is overflowing. The neighbour you asked to help has conveniently "forgotten" three weeks running.
For 4.4 million Australians with a disability or limited mobility, bin night isn't an annoyance — it's a barrier.
We retrofit your existing council bin with a modular drive base. No new bin. No council paperwork. Installed in 40 minutes.
A low-profile chassis clips onto your existing 240L bin. Same bin, same lid, same colour. Just with a brain.
Walk the bin from shelter to curb once. Onboard LiDAR and GPS remember the path down to the centimetre.
The app pulls your council's collection calendar. Red bin Thursdays, yellow every second Monday — it just knows.
Bin leaves at 6 am. Waits patiently. Detects when it's been emptied. Rolls itself home by 9. You never lifted a finger.
Every Trashpilot ships with the same sensor stack we'd put in an autonomous vehicle — just scaled down, weatherproofed, and quiet enough not to wake the dog.
360° LiDAR + stereo cameras detect cats, kids, and wheelie-scooters from 4 metres out. It will politely wait for your toddler to stop dancing in front of it.
IP67-rated base. 40mm ground clearance. Climbs a 15° driveway loaded with 60kg of garbage. Rain, hail, or 44°C Bankstown summer.
If your bin leaves the property unauthorised, it locks its wheels, triggers an alarm, and pings your phone. Bin theft is over.
A flexible solar panel on the lid tops up the battery between runs. Two trips a week, zero plug-ins for most households.
Ultrasonic sensors know when your bin is at 40%, 75%, 100%. Get a notification before you miss a collection.
Certified compatible with Sulo, Otto, and Mastec bins used by 96% of Australian councils. We handle the paperwork.
Subscription includes the DriveBase hardware, over-the-air updates, and replacement if anything goes wrong. Cancel anytime — the bin goes back in a prepaid box.
Yes. Trashpilot doesn't modify the bin itself — it's a removable drive base clipped underneath. Your bin still looks, lifts, and empties exactly as the truck expects. We've been certified with 186 councils across NSW, VIC, QLD, SA, WA and ACT.
The drive base is IP67 rated — it can sit in a puddle all day. 360° LiDAR detects obstacles from 4m and the bin will stop, wait 30 seconds, then try again. If it still can't pass, you get a notification and it returns home.
Onboard accelerometers detect the distinctive tip-and-shake pattern of a garbage truck lift. Once the bin is back on the ground and the truck has moved on, Trashpilot waits another 15 minutes (in case of double-collection streets) and then heads home.
Trashpilot has GPS-RTK and Cat-M1 LTE built in. Cross the geofence without an authorised "collection mode" active and the bin locks its wheels, triggers a siren, and live-tracks to your phone. We've recovered 100% of stolen bins in pilot suburbs.
4.2 km/h top speed, auto-stop sensors, and a pressure-sensitive bumper. It's slower than a toddler, quieter than a dishwasher, and designed to the same functional safety standard as an autonomous lawnmower (ISO 17510).
Up to 15° grade, fully loaded. For steeper properties we offer an optional assist-rail that installs along the driveway edge. About 8% of customers need one.
You don't need one. Trashpilot can dock anywhere flat with clearance overhead — a side-return, carport, or even a marked spot on the side of the house. We'll suggest the best location during install.
$49 fully refundable deposit. Lock in foundation-member pricing ($39/mo for life) and skip the 8-month waitlist.