Google robot learns to sort the recyclables left in office waste bins

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Robots have been roaming Google offices for two years, attempting to separate recyclable items from waste in bins and can now do it with 84 per cent accuracy

Waste-sorting robots that have been learning their job while wandering through Google offices can now effectively sort items in bins into recycling, compost and rubbish.

One way of teaching machines to perform tasks is by reinforcement learning, in which a robot is told what a successful outcome looks like and is left to figure out how to achieve it by trial and error and a system of feedback, gradually building up an optimal model of what to do.Advertisement

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