Robot Could be Solution to Trash Problems

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Robot Could be Solution to Trash Problems

Robot Could be Solution to Trash Problems

Now we are going close to Wall-E-like future and the company in Denver, Colorado has created the AI based robot to sort through trash. It works even better than the human beings. Clarke is installed at Alpine Waste and Recycling facility provided in Denver. It is a simple robotic arm and the visible light camera to look through the trash.

The robot looks for the cartons of milk, juice and food on the conveyor belt and plucks them through the two suction cups, which are attached to the robot arm. The robot has the capacity to pick 60 items per minute, which is 20 more items than the human being. Clarke does the work with the accuracy of 90% and it leads to 50% reduction in trash sorting costs.

Cartons Only For Now

AMP Robotics company built Clarke and it programmed it for the cartons. The founder of the company said that the fundamental platform to create, was the system to sort pretty much the commodities that are present in recycling facility, which can be cardboard, No.1 plastics, No.2 plastics or cartons and it ended up for us to start.

How AI Works

Clarke is watching and learning the other commodities and it can tell it is number one plastic or no.2 plastic and they think that in the future, it can classify them further.

That is the number one plastic and we want to be able to say that the Pepsi bottle and the Gatorade bottle and give the recycling facilities even in the finer resolution on what is going through the lines.

Age of Plastic

We have been making more and more plastic as it was first invented many decades ago. The manufacturers produced 448 million tones of plastic in 2015, which is twice as much as in 1998. The plastic industry grew in 1950. The university of California has done the study in which it is said that we produced over 9 billion tones of plastic since 50’s with the 7 billion tones of it, which is being used today. There is 9% of that 7 billion tones plastic, which was recycled and 12% was burnt. The remaining 5.5 billion tones is now reside in dumps and sewers.

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