Published in Journal of Industrial Engineering and Robotics, Volume 7, Number 26
Written by ȘTEFAN Cătălin-Andrei, BEBLIUC Andreea-Diana, MAHMOUD Samira-Ariana, Marian GHEORGHE, Ovidiu BLĂJINĂ, Nasim GANNAM
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Because of the necessity for physical object sorting, single-stream recycling is currently an exceedingly labor-intensive operation. Soft robotics provides compliant robots which, in a congested environment, use less computing to plan pathways and grab things. Most soft robots, however, are not tough enough to handle the various sharp items found in a recycling center.

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