{"id":89469,"date":"2019-04-12T10:44:35","date_gmt":"2019-04-12T17:44:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/recycling-robot-can-use-sense-of-touch-to-sort-through-the-trash"},"modified":"2019-04-12T10:44:35","modified_gmt":"2019-04-12T17:44:35","slug":"recycling-robot-can-use-sense-of-touch-to-sort-through-the-trash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/recycling-robot-can-use-sense-of-touch-to-sort-through-the-trash","title":{"rendered":"Recycling robot can use sense of touch to sort through the trash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TdzbDoEh44U?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>MIT\u2019s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) is developing a robot that sorts for recycling. Fundamentally, the squad\u2019s robot arm has soft grippers ad the robot can take objects from a conveyor belt and identify what they are made from\u2014 by touch.<\/p>\n<p>Tactile sensors on the <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/robot\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">robot<\/a> are the main feature. The sensorized gripper is fully electrical driven. It can detect the difference between paper, metal and plastic.<\/p>\n<p>Why this matters: \u201cAlthough environmental and sustainability concerns have made it crucial to scale up recycling operations, object sorting remains a critical bottleneck for recycling scalability,\u201d they wrote in their paper that describes their work.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/news\/2019-04-recycling-robot-trash.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MIT\u2019s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) is developing a robot that sorts for recycling. Fundamentally, the squad\u2019s robot arm has soft grippers ad the robot can take objects from a conveyor belt and identify what they are made from\u2014 by touch. Tactile sensors on the robot are the main feature. The sensorized gripper [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}