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 ...

If you throw a plastic water bottle or yogurt cup in a recycling bin, it might not necessarily be recycled. Inside sprawling warehouses that the industry calls “MRFs” or materials recovery facilities, ...

Although cleaning up the humungous Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a daunting concept, removing trash from local waterways is much more feasible … and that's exactly what the Clearbot robot is designed ...

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 ...

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 ...

A few years ago, Rebecca Hu-Thrams and her business partner, Areeb Malik, rented an attic from an ad on Craigslist to test out their robots using artificial technology. Fast forward and their company, ...

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 ...

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 ...

They are coming—for your trash. Sorting through 67 million tons of glass, plastic and paper is dirty, low-paid, mind-numbing work. Matanya Horowitz’s AMP Robotics wants to take humans off the job. At ...