Robots may be the solution to New York City’s trash problem. In fact, Cornell Tech Ph.D. candidate Frank Bu and his team engineered trash barrel robots — human controlled trash cans that pick up ...

Google announced a new artificial intelligence model on Friday that can help it train robots to understand tasks like throwing out trash. The Robotics Transformer 2 (RT-2) is a vision-language-action ...

The humble garbage run is getting a high-tech overhaul. From robot trash haulers that arrive on demand to electric trucks designed to silence the morning clatter of diesel engines, waste collection is ...

CLEARWATER, Fla. (WFLA) — ORCA is a small trash-collecting robot that two students from Pride Elementary School in New Tampa are hoping will turn into the next big thing. Best friends Aris Isaac and ...

Marine litter is a major environmental problem. Abandoned containers and fishing gear can trap or strangle animals, and plastic waste can break down into microplastics, which can release chemicals ...

As someone who writes about technology for a living, I didn't expect a garbage bin to be my favorite tech gadget of the year. But I've fallen in love with it. Yes, really. Connor is a technology ...

It's easy to love a robot with a face. But it turns out we'll react just as positively to a trash can sitting on a Roomba. That was the finding of four students at the Stanford Center for Design ...