Republic Services, the nation's second-largest waste management company, now have AI-powered robots in one-third of their ...

How do New Yorkers react to robots that approach them in public looking for trash? Surprisingly well, actually. Cornell researchers built and remotely controlled two trash barrel robots—one for ...

The humble garbage run is getting a high-tech overhaul. From robot trash haulers that arrive on demand to electric trucks designed to silence the morning clatter of diesel engines, waste collection is ...

A few years ago, Rebecca Hu-Thrams and her business partner, Areeb Malik, rented an attic from an ad on Craigslist to test out their robots using artificial technology. Fast forward and their company, ...

Fairhaven is the first community on the East Coast to deploy the Jellyfishbot, an autonomous aquatic robot designed to remove trash, microplastics and oil from local waterways. The Jellyfishbot, ...

Google announced a new artificial intelligence model on Friday that can help it train robots to understand tasks like throwing out trash. The Robotics Transformer 2 (RT-2) is a vision-language-action ...

With millions of tons of plastic covering the seafloor, and more added every year, plastic pollution in the oceans is a major problem. With this amount of waste, we are ruining Earth's oceans and ...