Today you missed the urn, and tomorrow the planet will plunge you into such a garbage apocalypse that all the current troubles of mankind will turn out to be a cute prank. But it will be too late.

The Ecosystem Integrity Fund led the Series A round, and was backed by the Amazon Climate Pledge Fund and 10 others.

Recycling robots are using artificial intelligence to learn how to sort recyclables by recognizing patterns in colors, textures, shapes and logos.

The self-emptying base station has up to 60 days’ worth of trash collection, which makes the robot vacuum a lot easier to maintain in the long run. Otherwise, it’s exactly the same as the ...

if only because robots are faster and better at distinguishing between recyclables and trash. “Every time we send people to audit our AI systems, the people just do so much worse,” said Areeb ...