2023-04-19 17:11:09
Recycling our waste is essential. To achieve this, they must first be well sorted. To make the operation more efficient, Recyleye offers a robotic solution backed by artificial intelligence.
Great stories started in a garage. From this point of view at least, that of Recycleye therefore has everything great. Originally, two young graduates. Belgian. A British. A treadmill bought on eBay. The parents’ garage and garbage cans. It was in 2019. Since then, the start-up has raised several million euros in funds. To develop robotic arms associated with vision systems that allow us to sort our waste efficiently.
Yes, because everything we throw in our yellow bins arrives in bulk at the sorting centre. And at this stage, if our waste is not separated from each other according to the material that composes it, it cannot be effectively recycled.
Increasingly efficient waste sorting
What Recycleye offers is a clever mix of machine learning, image recognition and automation. Ultimately, an intelligent system that recognizes the waste on the sorting belt thanks to a camera that feeds an algorithm which, itself, then tells a 6-axis robotic arm what waste to pick up and where to place it according to whether it is paper, plastic, glass or metal. All at a fairly crazy speed of nearly one sample per second. More efficient, they say, than a human being.
According to Recycleye, the technique is especially today already twice as fast as what is standard in the recycling industry. And effective, in sorting plastic, for example, at no less than 99%. ” Bright ! », comments a client on the start-up’s website. What both improve the recycling of materials while reducing the overall cost of the operation. Next development: allow the robot to refine its sorting by smelling the smells of waste…
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