The worker-owned company installed four new robots and three new optical scanning machines to help the 175 workers at the center.

Recycling centers can install the robots in facilities "with almost no change to their existing operations," Horowitz said.

It is faster than the recycling robots, but so far lacks the same kind of accuracy. A version with an AI vision system would be both ultra-quick and ultra-accurate.

FREMONT, Calif., Aug. 28, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Veolia Australia and New Zealand has selected EverestLabs, a U.S.-based leader in AI and robotics for recycling, to digitize and automate sorting ...