ZenRobotics - Sorting Municipal Solid Waste

ZenRobotics Fast Picker is the fastest recycling robot designed for lightweight sorting such as municipal solid waste. The robot sorts plastics, fiber and/or metal with a powerful vacuum gripper.

Fast Picker sorts bottles, lids, cans, tray cups and alike made from different colors and polymers including HDPE, LDPE, PET by grade, PP and PS. The robot also sorts grey and brown fibers including beverage cartons. The robot can identify objects by brand and packaging even when the fiber is not visible. Further, the robot picks metals such as used beverage cans (UBC).

The Fast Picker is optimal for both quality control and residue recovery, and can sort objects both positively and negatively. For example, robots can be trained to remove unwanted objects like contaminants such as herbicide cans (roundup), silicone cartridges, non-stick ketchup bottles, oil cans, and pipe cleaners from HDPE.