ALCOA, Tenn. — While most people are asleep, nearly 2,000 workers are busy inside Amazon’s TYS1 fulfillment center in Alcoa, ensuring packages are processed and ready for delivery. The TYS1 facility ...

Artificial intelligence and automation are impacting some jobs that humans don't always want to do. Robots are being used to sort through waste at recycling centers to combat worker shortages. In some ...

Every week 2 million packages enter and exit Amazon’s sorting facility in Otay Mesa. Within hours, they’re scanned, sorted by ZIP code, routed for delivery and loaded onto pallets where they’ll be ...

Waste Robotics has released updated information about its recent installations, offering a clearer look at how its systems have been performing in organics, mixed waste and C&D environmentsover the ...

Recycling today kind of sucks. People are generally confused about what can be recycled and where. As a result, only about 32% of eligible waste actually gets recycled. It would be a lot easier if ...

A family-run east London recycling firm is training a Chinese-built humanoid robot to sort waste on its conveyor belts, where staff turnover runs at 40 per cent and the fatality rate is eight times ...