Robots are starting to take the dirtiest and most dangerous jobs away from humans—and that’s why we built them. Working in a recycling facility is dangerous. Recent figures from the University of Illinois’s School of Public Health show that workers in a recycling plant are more than twice as likely to be injured at work as the average worker. Between 2011 and 2013, 17 recycling workers died on the job in the U.S. So perhaps…
Robots are coming for your recycling (and that’s a good thing)
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