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Waste sorting robot ‘ROBin’ expands to civilian use

The era of AI robots is dawning in recycling.

ROBOne (CEO Lee Young-jin) announced on the 5th that it has completed supplying its self-developed waste sorting robot ‘ROBin’ to two private recycling companies, P and C.

It supplied two units to P and one unit to C, and is currently in negotiations with P for additional supply.

ROBOne supplied ROBin to the public Busan Recycling Center for demonstration purposes for the first time since its launch last year. This is its first supply to the private recycling market.

In the second half of the year, it plans to supply it to listed company K’s factory and K’s Chicago factory in the United States.

ROBin picking up and sorting plastic waste.

ROBin picking up and sorting plastic waste.
ROBin is a plastic waste sorting AI robot developed by ROBOne with the goal of implementing a circular resource economy, and is Korea’s first 3D AI vision-based waste sorting solution.

3D AI vision acts as the human eye, and high-speed delta robots act as hands to sort and process plastic waste coming down the conveyor belt by type.

It sorts 10 types of plastic waste, including polyethylene terephthalate (PET), polyethylene (PE), polypropylene (PP), polystyrene (PS), and glass, at 85 per minute and with an accuracy of 99.4%. It can also sort and process 6 types of electronic waste, including printed circuit boards (PCB), copper (Cu), capacitors, motors, and transformers.

CEO Lee Young-jin said, “If we introduce ROBin, we can improve the efficiency of human resource management and sorting work, thereby improving overall productivity by more than 200%,” and “We plan to further enhance ROBin’s functions so that various types of waste sorting and sorting work can be done at corporate production sites.”

Busan = Reporter Dong-sik Lim dslim@etnews.com

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