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Robots aren't just lining up to do dangerous jobs such as helping police, fighting fires or assisting in disaster zones. They may wind up taking out the trash, too. Researchers at Cornell University ...

Researchers at the Technical University of Munich, Germany, have developed an automated diving robot that can detect and retrive marine litter from the sea.

Robots are taking over the dirty work of sorting through our trash and turning it into valuable resources. And not just any robots, but smart robots that use artificial intelligence (AI) to identify ...

Tired of dragging your bins to the curb and waking up to the roar of garbage trucks? A new robot called HARR-E could change that routine. Built by American manufacturing giant Oshkosh Corp., this ...

New Yorkers aren’t exactly known for being warm and fuzzy, so researchers were pleasantly surprised when only a few were rude to some trash-collecting robots deployed in Greenwich Village. The Cornell ...

Researchers from Cornell University unleashed two robotic trash cans in New York City, to study people’s interactions with autonomous everyday objects in public spaces. The robots were equipped with ...

There’s a new tool in town in the effort to reduce litter on Lake Tahoe’s famous beaches. Think of it as kind of like R2D2 with a trash bag. Or the Mars Rover with a “Keep Tahoe Blue” bumper sticker.

Robots may be the solution to New York City’s trash problem. In fact, Cornell Tech Ph.D. candidate Frank Bu and his team engineered trash barrel robots — human controlled trash cans that pick up ...

CLEARWATER, Fla. (WFLA) — ORCA is a small trash-collecting robot that two students from Pride Elementary School in New Tampa are hoping will turn into the next big thing. Best friends Aris Isaac and ...