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SPECIAL MENTION: Recycling is most often sorted by hand, making it a time consuming process, but AMP Robotics developed a robotic sorting system that uses AI to identify different types of materials. The system can process high volumes of material, picking them off a conveyor belt with 99 percent accuracy.
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