Kleen-O Corp Litter Eater

This bland-looking robot is little more than a simple black cube on dark treads, with a scoop similar to a train engine’s cattle catcher attached to the front.
Kleen-O Corp Litter Eaters™ were an extremely common sight in urban centers throughout the world before the apocalypse. City governments contracted Kleen-O Corp to manage waste clean-up efforts, which the corporation accomplished through the use of veritable armies of these boxy little robots. Not only did the Litter Eaters keep sidewalks and streets free of litter, but the waste they “chewed” was processed rather quickly and turned into a nutritious (albeit completely tasteless and texturally atrocious) protein paste. It would leave this gruel behind in hermetically-sealed plastic bags, which would later be collected by human patrols who would distribute them to the homeless population of the city.
The Litter Eaters are capable of chewing through almost any refuse, from roadkill, feces, and discarded food to aluminum cans, newspapers, and even chunks of rubble. Anything the eater comes across gets run up the cattle catcher and into a churning mouth featuring toothy cylinders ready to crush, mash, and crumble anything that passes through. The material then gets shoved into the eater’s recycler to be processed. The turn-around time from ingestion to food excretion is approximately 6 minutes. 
Unfortunately, though the Litter Eaters were simple enough machines to survive the holocaust and the centuries that came after, their programming turned out to be easily corrupted, and many of the eaters still active see nearly everything as refuse to be eaten, from buildings to fresh crops to the odd survivor, and many scavengers have awoken to find a Kleen-O Corp Litter Eater™ madly gnawing on their extremities.
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