To punish those who don't sort their garbage correctly, cameras are installed in garbage trucks and their images are analyzed by an AI. The proliferation of waste sorting bins in our towns and cities ...

China started small-scale trials of waste sorting in 2000, but landfill sites and unmanaged waste continued to encircle cities and local people protested plans to build more incinerators. Gradually, ...

Despite standout success in a few major cities, China's national garbage sorting campaign remains in its infancy in many other cities, with the practice yet to take hold among many residents, ...

Artificial intelligence and automation are impacting some jobs that humans don't always want to do. Robots are being used to sort through waste at recycling centers to combat worker shortages. In some ...

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 ...