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		LeanderK on July 17, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Despite High Hopes, Self-Driving Cars Are ‘Way in ... > - Robotic trash cans that perfectly sort recyclables and compostables without any contamination Sorting trash is (at least to me) a surprisingly complicated problem. The frauenhofer here in karlsruhe is working on bulk sorting using computer vision with various sensors (sorting black plastic: https://www.fraunhofer.de/en/press/research-news/2016/June/s... and sorting bulk goods: https://www.iosb.fraunhofer.de/servlet/is/15954/) If automated, it probably makes sense to not sort the stuff in your home, but instead by your trash-collector companies.

Ididntdothis on July 17, 2019 [–]

I wish there was much more research in that area. It’s a very hard problem and the benefit would be enormous. All the brain power that goes into ever better surveillance and selling ads would be much better used there.

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