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Excellent: A Laser-equipped, Trash-sorting Robot

  • March 4, 20108:00 am PST
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Given that only 6 percent of the plastic crap we throw away gets recycled, it's good news that Mitsubishi and Osaka University have invented a robot that can sort the different kinds of plastic automatically using (what else?) laser beams.

Via DVICE.