AUTOWARE - Case stories - Reconfigurable robot workcell

Today, the recycling market is changing rapidly due to global changes where the quality requirements of the incoming and outgoing material are increased. As a result, systems that are separating waste material from the target material need to be improved continuously to cope with this change. Stora Enso's Langerbrugge Mill in northwest Belgium, which is one of the largest paper mills in Europe, required a more effective paper-cardboard sorting solution and technology that can easily be retrained for anomaly detection. This technology was developed by Robovision, a company specializing in deep learning-based machine vision and robot programming, and Imec, which is the world-leading R&D and innovation hub in nanoelectronics and digital technologies within the framework of the AUTOWARE project. A big challenge in paper recycling is the separation of cardboard and waste materials from paper.