
Innovative Waste Recycling: AI and Robotics with Areeb Malik, Co-founder of Glacier
Hardware to Save a Planet
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The Challenge of Sorting Aluminum Cans
Glacial produces robots that use AI computer vision to look at it conveyor belt and identify everything that is coming on that belt. We pass that information over to a robotic sorting station that can then segregates the income and conveyor belt stream into whatever it needs to be segregated into. A lot of labor shortages in this industry, not just COVID specific of a COVID certainly did not help someone. So we talked to a couple of facilities who have up to 30 positions for people to do sorting and other best days they see 10 to 15. And so there's a lot of opportunity to increase the sort of force inside these is where we come in.
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