Danu Robotics Is Building a Better Recycling Sorting Robot

Danu Robotics founder Amy Ma started the company after noticing the recycling bins in her London bank office were being emptied into the trash. Six years later, Danu builds robots that sort recyclable waste.

TechCrunch reports that recycling economics still often depend on people sorting by hand through fast moving waste streams, which is the work Danu is trying to automate.

Why it matters: recycling sorting is dirty, repetitive and hard to staff. Robots that make sorting cheaper could make more materials worth recovering.