Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Smart Grapple is capable of lifting individual items of trash weighing up to 250 kilograms (550 pounds). - Andreas Schmitz/TUM ...

A few years ago, Rebecca Hu-Thrams and her business partner, Areeb Malik, rented an attic from an ad on Craigslist to test out their robots using artificial technology. Fast forward and their company, ...

Google announced a new artificial intelligence model on Friday that can help it train robots to understand tasks like throwing out trash. The Robotics Transformer 2 (RT-2) is a vision-language-action ...

Marine litter is a major environmental problem. Abandoned containers and fishing gear can trap or strangle animals, and plastic waste can break down into microplastics, which can release chemicals ...