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    WILL THE REAL RECYCLING ROBOTS PLEASE STAND UP?

    Sep 01, 2019 2 minutes
    by Kathryn Hulick
    Matthew Billington

    are hard at work developing robots that can identify, sort, and process recyclables. The dream is that robots could do all this work faster, cheaper, more accurately, and more safely than humans. Three of the robots below are already helping improve the recycling process around the world. But two others are just wishful thinking—they don’t really exist. Can you tell the difference?

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