We all know automation is coming more and more into our lives — soon vehicles won’t even need drivers anymore. So this article in a Resource Recycling caught my eye. The title of it was “How recycling robots have spread across North America.”
“Over just a few years, robotic sorting has gone from a gee-whiz laboratory curiosity to a key technology in a number of different types of facilities,” the article said.
I found the first record of a sorting robot installed to work in a recycling facility was in Denver just three years ago. Since then, data shows the recycling sector has embraced robotics and the trend continues as more robots are ordered.
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