At an office in San Francisco, if you drop a coffee cup in a robotic waste bin, the machine will automatically sort the cup for recycling. The office is one of the first to use the technology, called ...

Robots are taking over the dirty work of sorting through our trash and turning it into valuable resources. And not just any robots, but smart robots that use artificial intelligence (AI) to identify ...

A group of engineers in China has made throwing garbage fun and even a bit competitive. The team at HTX Studio has designed smart robot trash cans that can move on their own and catch flying trash ...

Robots aren't just lining up to do dangerous jobs such as helping police, fighting fires or assisting in disaster zones. They may wind up taking out the trash, too. Researchers at Cornell University ...

AMHERST — Recycling entrepreneurs Ian Goodine and Ethan Walko first met at UMass Amherst as freshman after joining a pickup soccer league. “We played a lot that year,” said Goodine, CEO of rStream, ...

SARASOTA, Fla. — A recycling facility in Sarasota is now using state-of-the-art robots to make every piece of your trash count. “In the recycling industry, it is very difficult to find labor that ...

You might want to rethink that congratulatory pat-on-the-back you give yourself when choosing to recycle instead of trash your venti Starbucks cup. Recent studies have found that up to 79 percent of ...

The 2B0 (To Be Zero) patented recycling robot uses artificial intelligence (AI) to automatically recognize, sort and process recyclable materials. Consumers can watch their recyclables being ground up ...

The majority of recycling is done by people who separate the various types of waste. Now, a new recycling robot has been created that can tell the difference between paper and plastic. The robot is ...