I was in a satellite office of my company in Poland a couple of months ago, and scattered around the place were these meter high plastic egg pod things that loo

I was in a satellite office of my company in Poland a couple of months ago, and scattered around the place were these meter high plastic egg pod things that looked like robots from a Portal game. Took me a while to realize they were garbage cans. For god's sake, people, can't we even let a trash can be itself?