Robotic sorting for recycling — Waste management
Vision-guided robots sorting plastics, paper and metals. Delivered for a waste management client in Dahej.
- Location
- Dahej
- Year
- 2021
- Duration
- 18 weeks
- Team
- 7 engineers
- 70
- picks per min
- 94%
- purity
- −21%
- landfill
The challenge
Existing vendors had delivered pieces of a robotic sorting for recycling system, but nobody owned the integration and the pilot had stalled.
What we built
We ran a two-week discovery sprint, then built and fielded the system end to end on Hyperspectral, PyTorch and EtherCAT, with operator training and an SLA.
Delivery timeline
Phase 1
Discovery sprint and site survey
Phase 2
Prototype built and tested in the Motera lab
Phase 3
Pilot on site with before/after measurement
Phase 4
Scale-out, training and handover
Highlights
- Designed, built and supported from Motera, Ahmedabad
- Before-and-after measurements agreed with the client up front
- Integrated with existing PLC, ERP or GIS systems — no rip-and-replace
- Operator training delivered in Gujarati, Hindi and English
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