{"id":92668,"date":"2017-07-24T13:36:35","date_gmt":"2017-07-24T13:36:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/en\/?p=92668"},"modified":"2025-07-01T23:49:54","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T06:49:54","slug":"is-clark-the-recycling-robot-a-hero-or-a-villain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/is-clark-the-recycling-robot-a-hero-or-a-villain\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Clark, the Recycling Robot, a Hero or a Villain?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now here we have a moral quandary. A robot named Clarke is <strong>able to sort out waste materials 50% quicker than humans can<\/strong>. On the one hand, we have the existential dread brought on by headlines like \u201cRobots are coming for your job!\u201d and on the other, we have the fact that in doing our jobs better than we can, they are saving the world.<\/p>\n<p>Clark still has a <strong>long way to go before he can sort out all types of waste,<\/strong> like his human overlords can, but he is definitely showing signs of <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-92671 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2017\/07\/f6a667_3ae4c623f09940aea7f6ec44492ed5c3-mv2_d_2776_2776_s_4_2.png\" alt=\"Is Clark, the Recycling Robot, a Hero or a Villain? view\" width=\"300\" height=\"227\" \/>progress. Developed by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amprobotics.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">AMP Robotic<\/a>, Clark is able to sort out <strong>60 items a minute with a 90% success rate<\/strong>. The robot uses artificial intelligence and a visible light camera to identify <strong>items made of a certain material<\/strong> and then suction cups and a robotic arm to separate them from the other items around it.<\/p>\n<p>At the moment, Clark is only able to identify <strong>less than 1% of all items<\/strong> that require recycling but his machine learning code means that his programming will be constantly improving itself. The more jobs Clark has to do, the more types of recyclable Clark will be able to identify. Mantanya Horowitz, founder of AMP said:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cEven though this first system is picking cartons, it\u2019s actually watching and learning from all the other commodities that it\u2019s seeing as well. That\u2019s what\u2019s really exciting. The more systems that we have out there, the better they\u2019re going to be.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>So which side of the fence do you fall on then? <strong>Would you let a robot take your job if it meant saving the world?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitaltrends.com\/cool-tech\/clarke-recycling-robot\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Digital Trends<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/gadgets\/comments\/6p33iw\/a_recycling_robot_named_clarke_could_be_the_key\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Reddit<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now here we have a moral quandary. A robot named Clarke is able to sort out waste materials 50% quicker than humans can. On the one hand, we have the existential dread brought on by headlines like \u201cRobots are coming for your job!\u201d and on the other, we have the fact that in doing our &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/is-clark-the-recycling-robot-a-hero-or-a-villain\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Is Clark, the Recycling Robot, a Hero or a Villain?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9073,"featured_media":92672,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-92668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9073"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92668"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":328671,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92668\/revisions\/328671"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92668"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=92668"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=92668"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=92668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}