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AMP Robotics has received significantly more orders for recycling-sorting robots since the start of the pandemic.
Some see this as a sign of things to come: nonessential workers in struggling industries being replaced by robots.
While most people would not have called recycling a “struggling industry” a month ago, Covid-19 has forced recycling plants to close, save those who traded human workers for machines. [Read more…] about The Robotic Revolution in Recycling
The BMW Group is building on its leading position in the world of electric mobility and has pooled its many years of experience with battery cells and extensive knowledge in the field in a new Competence Centre.
The purpose of the facility in Munich is to advance battery cell technology and carefully dissect the production processes.
Oliver Zipse, chairman of the board of management of BMW, says: “The new Battery Cell Competence Centre puts us in an enviable position. [Read more…] about BMW bids to shape the future of battery cell technology
AMP Robotics, a pioneer in artificial intelligence and robotics for the recycling industry, has launched its new AMP Cortex dual-robot system (DRS) focused on material recovery in municipal solid waste, electronic waste, and construction and demolition.
The AMP Cortex DRS expands on its existing product line of high-speed recycling robotics guided by the AMP Neuron AI platform and uses two high-performance robots that rapidly sort, pick, and place materials at a speed of 160 pieces per minute.
AMP Neuron uses computer vision and machine learning to recognise different colours, textures, shapes, sizes, and patterns to identify material characteristics.
[Read more…] about AMP Robotics launches new AI dual-robot system for the recycling industry
AMP Robotics, a pioneer in artificial intelligence and robotics for the recycling industry, and waste management technology company Ryohshin are to make and sell AI-driven industrial robotics for material recovery in the Japanese construction and demolition market.
The companies also announced the commercial launch of a high-performance construction and demolition robotic systems now available in Japan.
Ryohshin and AMP have co-developed a robotic system using the AMP Neuron AI platform to guide high-performance robots that recognise, sort, pick and process construction and demolition debris for recycling. The two robotic systems are called “AI-Benkei” and “AI-Musashi”.
[Read more…] about AMP Robotics and Ryohshin partner on automation for construction recycling
Today’s waste management system can’t deal with the tons of trash that are generated every single day.
Automating the procedure of trash disposal or sorting, by using artificial intelligence for smart waste management and recycling, is expected to be better garbage disposal method to recycle.
Do you remember the story of the sci-fi movie, Wall-E, where robot waste compactors were stationed on earth to clean it? [Read more…] about 5 Technologies That Would Change Waste Management Industry
Apple’s recycling robots are hungry for more defunct devices, as tech giant announces a “major expansion” of its recycling programmes.
The company says it is quadrupling the number of locations US customers can send their iPhone to be disassembled by Daisy, its recycling robot.
Daisy will disassemble and recycle select used iPhones returned to Best Buy stores throughout the US and KPN retailers in the Netherlands.
[Read more…] about Apple’s recycling robot hungry for more defunct devices
Project uses artificial intelligence to identify, grab, and separate food and beverage cartons
The Carton Council of North America says that it has been conducting a pilot program that uses artificial intelligence to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of carton recycling.
Its research concluded that the system was 50 per cent more productive.
Through a collaboration led by the Carton Council with two Denver-based companies, AMP Robotics and Alpine Waste & Recycling, a robotic system has learned to identify the wide variety of food and beverage cartons in order to grab and separate them from the recycling stream.
The AMP Cortex, nicknamed “Clarke” after the sci-fi author and futurist Arthur C. Clarke, has spider-like arms with specially designed grippers to pick up and separate cartons at a materials recovery facility.
Clarke was installed in late 2016 and, through fine-tuning and adjustments, has achieved a pickup rate of 60 cartons per minute. This is a considerable increase from the human average of 40 picks per minute. [Read more…] about Carton recycling robot 50 per cent more productive, claim researchers
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