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| The latest in Recycling: Robot Uses Artificial Intelligence to Sort Recyclables |
| 2011年，这家芬兰公司Zen Robotics首次使用其机器人废物分辨率在废物管理现场。他们的系统结合了计算机视觉，机器学习，人工智能（AI）来运行同步机器人臂，从移动输送带进行分类和挑选回收的材料。该公司因在神经网络中捆绑在一起的回收站而打破了地面，并且从实时提要中提供了从金属传感器，3D激光摄像机和光谱摄像头提供数据的AI，以从皮带中选择和分类正确的项目。 |
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| Sadako Technologies of Spain has been working on an AI-infused garbage sorting system on a smaller scale. The company uses proprietary algorithms that connect to a multi-layer neural network system which lives in the cloud. |
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| 现在，克拉克（Clarke）是一种回收机器人，它使用AI来识别各种塑料食品和饮料纸箱，因此它可以抓住并将其与其余的回收利用分开。飞行员是纸箱委员会和两家位于丹佛的公司的合作 |
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| According to Resource Recycling, Clarke uses an off-shelf robot that's been in use for two decades in other industries. Clarke, installed in 2016, has constantly improved its recycling skills, grabbing approximately 60 cartons per minute with near perfect accuracy. Clarke has been programmed to recognize images from the cartons including logos and package printing which it applies to the next round of sorting and grabbing. The Clarke system has the ability to sort at super-human speeds, diverting material for re-processing that might otherwise end up in landfill., Clarke's vision system combined with the ability for recyclers to identify and sort new material better and at the same time, sort on the line next to people, will make the difference in adoption. |
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| This robot in Japan helps to save the environment by sorting plastic using lasers. |
| This will allow for more than 45% of the total household plastic used to be recycled rather than burned. |
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| Mitsubishi, IDEC, and Osaka University have teamed up to help with Japan's recycling problems. They've built a 1.7m x 2.1m (5'6" x 6'9") robot that sorts plastic using lasers. The new robot would be able to sort six different plastic types, including PE and PP plastics which comprise 45% of the total, are not discernible by eye, and which are normally burned with other refuse. With millions of Japanese households generating millions of tons of plastic trash, adopting the robot for use in homes could make a big positive impact on the environment. A smaller version of the robot for home use is under development by IDEC, with a target cost around � 5 million . Recycling plastic is just one more chore that robots have conquered on the path to creating a completely automated house. |
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| The laser used by the recycling robot was developed by Osaka University's Photonics Advanced Research Center. It accurately measures the reflectivity of the different plastics to be able to tell them apart. That's a pretty mundane task for a complex laser system |
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| 机器人已经接管了吸尘地板，清洗窗和清洁盘子。慢慢地但肯定这些自动机正在检查您的待办事项清单。尽管大多数家用机器人都没有工业同行的速度或精度，但他们能够满足家庭的更混乱的需求。对于我们1950年代的祖先来说，可能会令人惊讶，这是这些机器人不是人形的，没有可爱的个性，而且仍然需要大量的人类互动。有些像洗碗机一样，甚至不认为是机器人。我们可能必须习惯这样的想法，即当人类机器人出现时，所有真正的工作都将被非人类机器人处理。 |
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| Sameer Joshi博士 |
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