A system to automatically detect and collect garbage

Numerous countries worldwide are currently facing major problems related to waste collection, particularly in urban areas, due to the large amount of waste generated daily by the population. Technology could play a significant role in tackling these issues, for instance, through the development of more effective tools to gather and collect garbage. With this in mind, researchers at Vishwakarma Government Engineering College in India have recently created a cheap and effective system for automatic garbage detection and collection. Their system, presented in a paper pre-published on arXiv, uses artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms to detect and locate waste in its surroundings, then picks it up with a robotic gripper. "Contemporaneous methods find it difficult to manage the volume of solid waste generated by the growing urban population," the researchers wrote in their paper.