Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. There are a number of startups working to improve trash sorting with robots. AMP Robotics is near the top of the list, coupling a ...

ASU is enhancing its efforts to improve landfill diversion with a new type of waste-sorting system installed last week. With the amount of foot traffic through the MU, it was necessary to find a way ...

Vietnamese inventor Tran Van Truong creates automated waste-sorting system to reclaim resources, reduce landfill waste, and revive polluted dump sites. Faced with mounting domestic waste and outdated ...

Alphabet's rebooted robotics program starts with trash-sorting machines It's like WALL-E but in real life. Georgina Torbet Contributing Writer Updated Fri, November 22, 2019 at 2:45 AM PST ...

During a recent visit to Alphabet’s X lab, I drained my coffee and left the compostable cup on a tray marked “Cans & Bottles.” The transgression was soon mended. Twenty minutes later, a wheeled, ...

Just a few years ago, operators of material recovery facilities (MRFs) would often wonder aloud whether the collection and processing of plastic bottles was worth the effort. Among the factors that ...