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As a tech demo sure. But the current tech for this is much better where you just have a camera pointing at the trash falling, and either flipper paddles or air jets to push the trash in to the correct buckets as it’s falling.

Why do we then still need to sort the trash? Honest question

So the truck can take stuff direct to landfill or composting. And so rotting food doesn’t destroy the recycling.

Recycling then has to be sorted further.

This requires separating each piece of trash, which runs into the dexterity and computer vision issue again.

There’s quite a few companies in that field already. Keen to hear their feedback if they are reading this.

I feel like robots that could do this with 100% accuracy might shine too bright a light on how well recycling currently works. And I say that as a proponent of the three Rs.

Burning trash works fairly well.