Robotic arms use suction to grab items from the moving belt and drop them into chutes.

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, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (COLORADO SPRINGS) — A local recycling center in Colorado Springs is using a robot to help sort waste items. It is becoming more ...

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 ...

A first robot arm picks the phone up and places it onto a pad, where a second arm picks it up places it into a metal bracket before peeling the display off the device. The second chamber is the most ...

The 400 refuse trucks that roll into Caglia Environmental’s Cedar Avenue Recycling and Transfer Station (CARTS) in Fresno, California, six days a week bring all manner of material. Crushed boxes, ...

Ever wondered what happens to the recyclables you carefully sort and place in your bin? For years, recycling has been a crucial part of our efforts to reduce waste and protect the environment. However ...

Meet Daisy, Apple's latest robot that can disassemble scrapped iPhones to reclaim valuable materials which can be reused. Developed by Apple's in-house engineers, Daisy is an update to Liam, the ...

EverestLabs, the Fremont, California-based developer of RecycleOS, an artificial intelligence- (AI-) enabled operating system for material recovery facilities (MRFs) and recyclers, has partnered with ...

E-waste has become a global problem. Unfortunately, the majority of discarded used technology, known as e-waste, is dumped or processed in unsafe conditions. Around 78% of electronic products aren’t ...

A family-run east London recycling firm is training a Chinese-built humanoid robot to sort waste on its conveyor belts, where staff turnover runs at 40 per cent and the fatality rate is eight times ...

Plus: tech bosses received a grilling from the US Senate This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology. Why ...