FANUC’s Innovative System of the Year Award - Waste Robotics Autonomous recycling

FANUC’s Innovative System of the Year Award highlights the utilization of robotic automation and technology - not necessarily robot volume. Innovation can center upon the FANUC automation process, application, or a non-traditional manufacturing industry.
Waste Robotics Autonomous recycling
Waste Robotics Autonomous Recycling (WAR) technology integrates advanced waste handling processes, computer vision, deep learning algorithms and state-of-the-art robotic technologies to enable smaller, more precise, safer and more profitable waste recycling facilities.
Recyclable waste sorting is mostly performed by manual labor in dull, dirty and dangerous environments. There are less and less people willing to perform these tasks and more and more recycling to be processed. A task like this is ideal for automation, but the challenge of recognizing and extracting random looking objects in a random stream of waste is very difficult. Newly available Artificial intelligence (AI) now enables these complex applications.
Current systems have limited recognition and extraction technologies that limit the quality of sorted material. Waste Robotics has developed a computer vision system that enables real-time recognition of objects in a random stream while dispatching robot commands to perform efficient and high-quality sorting to enable a circular economy.

[@hatembougrine2924]

Nice work but no time waste. improving is the next step :)

[@ttalvit1e]

Perhaps you should check Zen Robotics. They have this on a completely different level.

[@cornpop7805]

Way too slow to do any good. They need an army fast SCARA or Delta arms for that work. I bid on a project very similar this and the waste was coming in at 100 cubic yards per minute. The conveyor in this video is moving at about 1 cubic yard per minute.

[@patrickjensen6688]

Be nice if they put those on dump trucks and had them pick up trash on the side of the road

[@yaboiii64]

soon good sir, it wont be long.

[@MrBemnet1]

first 30 seconds wasted

[@IgorGabrielan]

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