Penn Waste has implemented AI-powered robots to improve the safety and efficiency of its recycling sorting process. Developed by startup Glacier, the AI robots can identify 70 different materials and ...

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Entering Recology’s recycling facility in South Seattle stuns your senses. The din from heavy machinery is continuous. While recycled goods are meant to be clean from food waste, your nose quickly ...

APPLETON, Wis. (WBAY) - New robots with artificial intelligence are helping to recycle more and send trash to landfills less. Recycled materials from Brown, Outagamie, and Winnebago counties come to ...

The Recology King County Material Recovery Facility in south Seattle is embracing artificial intelligence-equipped robots to enhance its recycling process. Each weekday, the facility processes 300 ...

The fresh capital brings Glacier's total funding to $29 million. With robots currently active in five states and vision technology operating in four others, the company plans to scale rapidly, ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics company Glacier, based in San Francisco, has raised $7.7 million in funding from New Enterprise Associates (NEA), Menlo Park, California, and Amazon's Climate ...

Earlier this year, humanoid robotics company Figure showed off its Figure 02 robot using a sophisticated visual language system called Helix to sort packages at a logistics warehouse. Footage showed a ...

APPLETON, Wisconsin (WGBA) — Separating your trash from your recyclables should be easy, but what happens when a plastic bottle ends up in the wrong bin? Fortunately, there’s a new tool being used in ...

Recycling municipal solid waste (MSW) clearly provides numerous societal and environmental benefits, including conserving natural resources, decreasing the amount of material sent to landfills and ...

BOT or NOT? This special series explores the evolving relationship between humans and machines, examining the ways that robots, artificial intelligence and automation are impacting our work and lives.