Robots for selection and sorting of waste

Our litter contains a large number of raw materials which are wasted. The different materials must be separated to be economically enhanced and today technology does not allow you to do this efficiently. Most often it is necessary to use personnel who work in unhealthy conditions to recover only a portion of the recoverable material. Our project aims to create a robotic sorting system for sorting the different materials in our waste. This is achieved thanks to advanced computer vision and robot manipulation techniques. Waste sorting is not only a challenging technical problem, but it is a problem with several implications. Environmental implications, because of waste disposal. Social implications, due to the harsh working conditions of workers and the high turnover of staff. Economic implications, to make profitable recycling and recovery of waste. In this paper, we present the basic building blocks on which we are creating our solution to the robotic waste sorting problem.