How do New Yorkers react to robots that approach them in public looking for trash? Surprisingly well, actually. Cornell researchers built and remotely controlled two trash barrel robots—one for ...

The humble garbage run is getting a high-tech overhaul. From robot trash haulers that arrive on demand to electric trucks designed to silence the morning clatter of diesel engines, waste collection is ...

Republic Services, the nation's second-largest waste management company, now have AI-powered robots in one-third of their ...

Google announced a new artificial intelligence model on Friday that can help it train robots to understand tasks like throwing out trash. The Robotics Transformer 2 (RT-2) is a vision-language-action ...

Fairhaven is the first community on the East Coast to deploy the Jellyfishbot, an autonomous aquatic robot designed to remove trash, microplastics and oil from local waterways. The Jellyfishbot, ...