Today, February 14, CNews, citing its sources, officially announced the launch of the EcoTech project in Russia, which focuses on the collection of secondary raw materials (that is, consumer waste that can be reused in production after appropriate processing) and works on the basis of artificial intellect. The Russian company Ecopoint, which is a resident of the Skolkovo Innovation Center, is responsible for the implementation of the project, and the first network of smart points for receiving secondary raw materials from the civilian population has been launched in Nizhny Novgorod.
The authors of the project noted that the patented technology based on artificial intelligence will automatically analyze the recyclables that citizens hand over, recognizing the type of garbage, its level of purity and suitability for further processing. Moreover, the process will be paid for on the spot – users who handed over recycled materials to Ecopoint smart machines will be able to receive a cash reward, which will probably motivate citizens to sort garbage and hand it over for recycling. This is very useful both for the environment, which will not be loaded with tons of excess garbage, and for the citizens themselves, who receive a conditional “cashback”.
Experts said that Ecopoint’s smart devices are able to evaluate the type, quality and quantity of loaded secondary raw materials on the basis of artificial intelligence with an accuracy of more than 95%, so the probability of an error when dumping garbage is extremely low. At the same time, it should be noted that at the moment the machines accept only aluminum cans, plastic bottles and absolutely all types of waste paper. The company is also working on implementing support for glass and electric scrap by smart machines, but so far no one has announced the exact terms for the upgrade, which should be taken into account by people who want to hand over secondary raw materials.
At the moment, this is the first and only project in Russia to use artificial intelligence in this industry, but, most likely, if the tests in Nizhny Novgorod are successful, then in the future Ecopoint will expand its presence to other large cities of the country, and maybe and competitors will appear. Although the company’s smart devices are already working around the clock and can take up to 500 kg of recycled materials daily, which is already an insane indicator, given that all the “dirty” work is done not by a human operator, but by artificial intelligence.
Source: Trash Box
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