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Podcast: Engineering Matters
Episode: SHORT: Recycling, Without Waste
Description: It can seem, at times, as if we are drowning in a sea of waste, a great ocean of paper and tin, glass and plastic, all mixed together, and resistant to recycling and re-use.
AMP Robotics build systems that cut through this complexity. Trained using millions upon millions of images, their robots can identify, pick, and sort individual waste items, splitting them into streams that can then be recycled. But while their work is helping reduce the world’s waste problems, they are creating their own form of waste.
It is not physical waste that pl...