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“Incredible ice masses teach AI recycling robots”

The future of recycling is here, and of course, it involves robots and artificial intelligence. Rebecca Hu, the co-founder of the robotics company Glacier, creates robots that help recycling plants separate and, well, recycle material. Before, sorting recyclable materials was a manual job that took hours for someone to do. Today, Glacier has been using AI cameras so that robots can better identify recyclable materials. Hu said training the robots to spot materials was akin to teaching a toddler how to tell two things apart.

Max Chen
March 12, 2024

Robotics & AI

Amazon partners with recycling robot company to monitor packaging waste

In 2021, the company says it used 214 million or so pounds of single-use plastic in its packaging. Nonprofit ocean conservation firm Oceana, on the other hand, put that figure at approximately ~700 million pounds. Take for example, its ongoing efforts to reduce package weights and replace plastics with paper products. The first is a robot that is primarily deployed in recycling facilities to sort through different materials. We’ve also received a pretty significant grant from the Michigan Department of Environment for further deployments of our technology.