Trashbots
Could AI take the pain and inefficiency out of recycling? Municipalities and waste companies are engaged in a Sisyphean battle to cajole and convince people to separate their waste. And despite their best efforts, even with beautifully colour-coded and icon-enriched bins, the wrong trash often ends up in the wrong containers, adding time, effort and expense to the recycling process. Now CleanRobotics, a semifinalist in the IBM Watson AI XPRIZE, has invented the Trashbot, which automatically sorts waste into different categories at the disposal stage. Zen Robotics and MBA Polymers have similar hi-tech solutions for waste depots. Welcome WALL-E.
— Wayne Visser
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